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...spirit of bitter denunciation." Psychiatrist Carl Binger fired off an angry letter: "Your six diatribes against Mr. Pusey betray not only bad taste, but also bad faith." A Saintly Dedication. Only a Crimson cub could say that mighty Harvard is foundering under Iowa-born Historian Pusey, 55, himself a Harvardman ('28), who was president of Wisconsin's little Lawrence College when he was named Harvard's 24th president in 1953. Pusey has shown, says one professor, "the dedication to Harvard of a saint to his monastery." Deeply religious, Episcopalian Pusey has revamped Harvard's divinity school...
...cars into congested downtown Boston. But what really caught Boston's eye was the name of the man who paid for the ad: dynamic Robert M. Jenney, 43, whose 150-year-old Jenney Manufacturing Co. makes its money selling gasoline at 600 service stations throughout New England. Harvardman ('41) Jenney concedes that his appeal runs against his company's immediate self-interest, but argues that uncontrolled auto traffic will ultimately strangle Boston "and if the city doesn't do well, all business will suffer...
...When he was named chairman of Allied Chemical Corp. (1960 sales: $766 million) two years ago, Harvardman Kerby H. Fisk, 58, had spent most of his career in the Prudential Insurance Co., knew little about chemicals. But Allied's board decided that the cool, analytical Fisk was the man to put some snap back into their company which for a decade had been falling behind Dow and Monsanto. Last week Fisk announced plans to swap $350 million in Allied stock to acquire Union Texas Natural Gas Corp., a major oil and gas producer whose output will guarantee Allied...
...girls have in common are English bicycles, guitars and extremely hard work, made harder by their compulsion to do even more than asked. "They go to the library and underline and underline," observes a Radcliffe senior. They are too busy for newspapers and politics: "So there's a Harvardman in the White House, big deal." In their overcrowded dormitories, they get on one another's nerves, and there is "no place...
...Cliffies, attracted by "those Harvard men--and Harvard itself, of course," are "unusually mature as well as fearfully bright." The Time story noted that 66 per cent graduated with honors last June. It also quoted an astonished Harvardman as admitting that "all 'Cliffies are no longer dogs...