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Cyrus Lee Sulzberger II, 32, is rawboned, curious, and has a tireless pair of reportorial legs. Starting grass-green in 1934, Harvardman Sulzberger declared he would not work for the Times until it asked him to. After a turn on the Pittsburgh Press, he joined the Washington staff of the United Press, became a labor specialist, later wrote a book, Sit-down with John L. Lewis. In 1938 he went abroad without a job, landed one with the London Evening Standard, finally got his call from the Times...
Grandfather George Martin Dewey, a Harvardman, helped found the G.O.P. at the historic conclave under the Michigan oaks in 1854. Father Dewey (also George Martin) was a Republican editor and postmaster in small (pop. then: 8,000), maple-shaded Owosso, Mich. The Deweys lived in a large, white frame house on the best street in town, but the family never had much left over when the bills were paid. Like most small-town boys, Thomas Edmund Dewey began picking up spending money in his early teens-delivering papers, clerking in the drug store, hiring out as a farm hand...
...that agreement, President Roosevelt in 1941 gave Canada's war industry a shot in the arm. He and his old friend & fellow Harvardman, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, initially arranged for the U.S. to buy $200 to $300 million-worth of war supplies in Canada. Prime purpose: to provide Canada with sorely needed U.S. dollars. It was a pre-Pearl Harbor device to help Britain and her Dominions "short...
Died. Percy Selden Straus, 67, onetime president of Manhattan's mammoth R. H. Macy & Co. department store (1933-40), last of the third generation of Straus merchandisers; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. The high-domed Harvardman ('97) Put aside academic ambitions to enter Macy's, remained the scholar of the fraternal trio which also included (Idea-Man) Jesse, onetime U.S. Ambassador to France, and (Idea-Muller) Herbert. To gether they expanded the cash-policy business started by their grandfather with a china concession in Capt. R. H. Macy's 114th Street emporium, continued by their...
...athlete of yesteryear and a triple threat at that. Another famed Harvard character is "Copey" Professor Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus. Annually he attracts a packed hall to listen to him as he intones familiar and unfamiliar words from the Bible, Kipling, Stephen Leacock, Harvardman, Robert Benchley '12, and many more...