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...Wellesley Hills, Mass. 71 Jeffrey, Frank J. '59 T 21 6.1 215 Pawcatuck, Conn. 72 Courtemanche, Robert A. '60 T 19 6.0 215 Methuen, Mass. 73 Hurley, Peter H. '61 G 19 5.11 185 Rumford, R.I. 74 Coffin, Howard A. '61 T 19 6.5 220 Hudson, Ohio 75 Hoover, John S. '61 T 19 6.2 205 Altoona, Pa. 76 Glasheen, John D. '59 T 21 6.1 220 N. Hampton, Mass. 77 McNeish, Peter F. '59 T 21 5.11 210 Pittsburgh, Pa. 78 Lawler, Edward E. '60 T 20 6.3 215 Alexandria, Va. 79 Budrewicz, Thomas...
...Weeks, Lewis Strauss, 62, is a millionaire, but his origins were radically different. Weeks was born to money and status, went to Harvard. Brainy, West Virginia-born Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss (pronounced straws) never went to college, started out as a traveling shoe salesman. As secretary to Food Administrator Herbert Hoover during World War I, Strauss noted with satisfaction last week that as Commerce Secretary he will be serving in a post once held by his onetime boss and longtime friend...
...Republican but stayed a flute player. He used his favorite instrument to relax from a hectic career during which he served seven Presidents-he started as McKinley's Comptroller of the Currency, was Vice President under Coolidge, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's for Hoover, left public life at 67 as director of Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corp. Once in 1911 he tried his hand at composition-a simple air entitled Melody in A Major. A friend liked it and sold it to a publisher for $100. Wrote Banker Dawes in his diary: "I know...
...continuing activity pose a vital question for modern medicine: What is the secret of living healthily, happily and usefully in old age? How has Stagg done it? In fields unrelated to physical fitness, how has the same goal been achieved by other productive oldsters, such as ex-President Herbert Hoover (84), Senator Theodore Francis Green (91), and Manhattan Lawyer Charles C. Burlingham...
...justly claim that no man was ever under heavier or more cruel stress and survived it in good mental and physical health is Herbert Hoover, 84. One of only five U.S. Presidents to have reached fourscore, and the first in 100 years,*Hoover endured not only the emotional torment of a presidency that spanned most of the Depression, but two decades of obloquy in which his name was equated with economic disaster and social injustice. A poor boy who, like Stagg, got his early exercise involuntarily, and a self-made millionaire like Sloan and Kettering, Herbert Hoover has long since...