Word: harvardman
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Died. Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, 96, biographer, historian and poet whose warmth and urbanity led his fellow Harvardman, Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, to nominate him as the ideal man to represent the human race on a mission to Mars; in Cambridge, Mass. After eye trouble ended Howe's career as an editor (Youth's Companion, Atlantic Monthly), he became an author, wrote 38 volumes in longhand (including a 1924 Pulitzer Prize biography, Barrett Wendell and his Letters), but maintained nonetheless that his "best products" were his children: onetime Monologist and Novelist Helen, Harvard Law Professor Mark...
...Foods, Frankfort Distilleries) and investment banker (Manhattan's J. H. Whitney & Co.), Acting OPAdministrator in 1945, chairman of the Ford Foundation's Advisory Committee, co-founder of the National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools; of a heart attack; at his home in Fairfield, Conn. Soft-spoken Harvardman Brownlee ('13) got his start as a sugar salesman, then turned his talents to whisky (Four Roses'), gradually gravitated to public service and became a top authority on economic controls...
Dressed in his three-piece suit and heavy cordovan shoes, Mr. Rondelle sizzles in the Cambridge summer. The sweat and heat of his Harvardman's body, however, are nothing compared with what goes on in his button-down mind. The Harvard tradition from which he descends is that of narrow-minded, straight-laced New England Puritanism, with its inane and unhealthy repressions...
Besides being old hands at TIME, all three of the top team are former newspapermen. Roy Alexander, a graduate of St. Louis University ('18), was assistant city editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch before he joined TIME in 1939. Harvardman ('32, president of the Crimson) Otto Fuerbringer, a native St. Louisan, was a reporter, political writer and art columnist on the Post-Dispatch before he came to TIME in 1942. Tom Griffith, a graduate of the University of Washington ('36) and Harvard Nieman Fellow, was on the staff of the Seattle Times for six years...
...Program for Harvard College, just in time to enable the monumental three-year campaign to top its goal with total pledges of $82,697,470, plus a $5,000,000 dividend of interest and appreciation already earned by Program money in the bank. Explained onetime Harvardman ('07) Vanderbilt: "This drive has acquired an almost romantic appeal for the many who love Harvard...