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...Into the No. 1 spot, replacing ailing President Charles G. Taylor Jr., 69, of the $11.6 billion Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. stepped Executive Vice President Frederic W. (for Worral) Ecker, 57, son of former (1929-36) Met President Frederick H. Ecker, 85, now honorary chairman. A Harvardman ('18), poker-faced (and poker-playing) Frederic Ecker won a D.S.C. and Croix de guerre as a World War I infantry lieutenant, tried his hand briefly in the securities business before following in his father's footsteps at Metropolitan...
...sweaty, dirty Harvardman will receive a kiss from a cool, collected, and supposedly calm Wellesley beauty on Sunday...
...Harvardman Conant, himself a graduate of the 308-year-old independent Roxbury Latin School, the "first-rate comprehensive high school" is the ideal for America. "More than one foreign observer has remarked that . . . free schools, where the future doctor, lawyer, professor, politician . . . labor leader and manual worker have studied and played together . . . are an American invention. That such schools should be maintained and made even more democratic and comprehensive seems to me to be essential for the future of this republic...
...Navy as a destroyer commander, moved in as head of a rescue committee. Says Adams: "None of the other directors wanted the job because they'd lose their reputations if we went under. I, having no reputation to lose, said sure, this is a challenging situation." Adams, a Harvardman ('32) and investment banker, got Raytheon into fighting trim, soon stepped on to the bridge as executive vice president. Four years ago Laurence K. Marshall, who had founded the company in 1922 with the help of M.I.T.'s famed Scientist Vannevar Bush, retired as president, and Adams took...
When Mrs. Eleanor Morgan Satterlee, a granddaughter of J. P. Morgan, died of cancer last year at 46, Park Avenue gossips set up a buzz-buzz over her will. She had bequeathed her attorney, well-to-do Sol Rosenblatt, 51 (Harvardman, General Hugh Johnson's right-hand man in NRA, onetime counsel to the Democratic National Committee), the residuary estate of $200,000. To her favorite psychiatrist, Dr. Richard ("Darling Dick'') Hoffmann, 64, on whom many of the gossips would have bet, she left only an oil painting. Last week in a Manhattan court, Mrs. Satterlee...