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...weeks ago, Harvardman Schine finished basic military police training at Georgia's Camp Gordon, where he had applied for the Army's criminal investigation course. The application was rejected last week by Major General William H. Maglin, the provost marshal general, who explained that Schine had been an "outstanding soldier" at Camp Gordon, "but I'm not sure that the past history previous thereto was the same...
Peter K. Grimes had neither the cloak, the dagger nor the devil-may-care air of a scarlet pimpernel. A Boston travel agent, Harvardman Grimes, 32, married a German war widow who had come to the U.S. to study at Columbia University. His wife Irmgard had left her two young daughters by her first marriage in East Germany with her father, but she and Peter quickly agreed that the family should be brought together...
...Dwight P. Robinson Jr., 53, moved up to chairman of the board of trustees of Massachusetts Investors Trust, oldest and biggest open-end investment trust. Robinson set up the trust's research department, became a trustee in 1937, vice chairman of the board in 1950. He replaces Harvardman ('07) Merrill Griswold, who retired to the newly created part-time job of chairman of the advisory board. While Griswold was chairman, the investment trust idea grew so fast that M.I.T.'s assets swelled from $13.6 million to more than $500 million...
Anxiety for Action. Harvardman Randall reads a lot and has a good sense of humor (he once suggested that more businessmen might read books if a law were passed prohibiting gin rummy), but he likes to study a serious problem carefully before he sounds off on it. With barely five months in which to make his foreign-trade recommendations, he is painfully anxious to get his trade commission in action...
...hope of a squib for his column, however, O'Hara sat down after getting the lather off his chin and wrote a letter asking what the Senator thought of the new prexy. Harvardman O'Hara expected nothing more than a note saying McCarthy thought Neighbor Pusey was a fine fellow. But to O'Hara's amazement, McCarthy saw Red. He wrote...