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Charley, like most heroes of Marquand novels, is decent, full of consideration for family and friends, driven by a determination to do things, void of spiritual values. Another Harvardman, Nobel Prize-winning Poet T. S. Eliot, wrote ironically in his early days of such fellow worldlings, later (in The Rock) declared his second-thoughts...
Indecent Exposure. Instead, Marquand came back from the war "full of beans and determined to make one billion dollars." He compromised for a $50-a-week job on the New York Tribune Sunday section, then shifted to the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency as a copywriter (after Harvardman Robert Benchley, '12, tipped him off that a job was open...
Last week Harvardman Bill Nichols changed his formula a bit. He dropped Emily Post (who went over to the American Weekly) for a livelier "Everybody's Etiquette" with such guest lecturers as John Kieran (etiquette for birdwatchers and motorists). And for eager eaters, he signed up Clementine Paddleford, the New York Herald Tribune's food expert...
Yale's Carl Purington Rollins, 68, goateed graphic-arts professor and "Printer to Yale University" since 1920. Harvardman Rollins overhauled all of Yale's printing, from library cards to diplomas, designed more than 2,000 handsome books, won the gold medal of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (his favorite type face: Caslon old style...
...brothers gather their gossip and opinion by a busy round of telephoning, lunching and buttonholing sources. Then they meet to decide who writes the next column, or whether they should do it jointly. Their contacts are largely second-level Government men like Harvardman Charles ("Chip") Bohlen and ECA's Dick Bissell, an old Grottie of Joe's class. The Alsops think press conferences a waste of time, go to Harry Truman's only a couple of times a year, just "to see what the President looks like...