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...National Academy of Sciences; former Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Gordon Dean; Physicist James B. Fisk of Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.; Investment Banker Bradley Gaylord; Lawyer Roswell L. Gilpatric, former Under Secretary of the Air Force; Investment Banker Townsend W. Hoopes; Johns Hopkins Administrative Officer Ellis A. Johnson; Harvardman Henry A. Kissinger, author of Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy (TIME, Aug. 26); Colonel George A. Lincoln, West Point social scientist; Henry R. Luce, editor-in-chief, TIME, LIFE, FORTUNE; Lawyer Frank C. Nash, former Assistant to the Defense Secretary (who died during the study); Laurance S. Rockefeller; Harvard Economist Arthur Smithies...
Honey Fitz and Pat Kennedy often opposed each other politically, but they formed a family coalition with the marriage of red-haired young Joe Kennedy and brunette Rose Fitzgerald, who spoke French and German and "understood Harvard." Harvardman Joe, who had just taken over as president of East Boston's Columbia Trust Co. (Pat Kennedy held substantial stock in the bank, which did not hurt Joe's getting the job), promptly announced that he would make a million dollars with the arrival of each new child...
...rays of the teeth of incoming freshmen have shown that almost five out of every six need dental care. While this may be attributable to the average Harvardman's disdain for the physical, a genteel Bohemianism, or perhaps even to actual cowardliness, the important thing is that something be done to restore a physical basis for Harvard's mental endeavor. As of yet, the University has not adequately met the dental problem...
...Program for Harvard College specifies the addition of three more dental chairs. This program should be started before the fund is completed. The Harvardman's health is too valuable to be neglected. If prompt action is not taken to provide ample and convenient dental care, such well-known American expressions as "Flash that pearly grin, Tiger" and "You'll wonder where the yellow went" will assume bitterly ironic and tragic proportions...
...cantankerous former judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, who left the bench to serve as a lieutenant colonel in World War II, returned to find his seat filled, sued claiming the G.I. Bill guaranteed him his job (he lost); of a heart attack; in Nuwara Eliya, Ceylon. Harvardman ('11) Clark first gained fame in 1930 by ruling that the 18th (prohibition) Amendment was invalid, a decision unanimously reversed by the Supreme Court...