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Sirs: TIME'S characters are interesting even if they are not real. The portrayal of the G-men in TIME rings truer than any, I am sure. I went to school with Hoover. We men who received C's called Hoover, who received A's, "fatty pants." In my class was a lad named Clyde Tolson [special agent in charge of the Washington bureau], Hoover's right-hand man, and if TIME or FORTUNE ever really gets behind the scenes you'll have to find even a better word than "able" for Clyde Tolson. . . . Incidentally...
Reader Collier's information is interesting, even if not entirely accurate. Most George Washington classmates (1916) re-call J. Edgar Hoover's nickname as "Speedy," "Speed" or "Spee." Another District of Columbia and George Washington University boy who made good is U. S. Ambassador to China Nelson Trusler Johnson...
That portrait of an irresponsible critic remained accurate throughout the Coolidge and Hoover regimes. Even as late as 1932 Senator Harrison was still being spurred to flights of irony by such items as a Government pamphlet which he called "The Love Life of a Bullfrog." But the portrait bears no recognizable likeness to the Pat Harrison...
...officers, aside from Jones and Fieser, of the Association of Harvard Chemists are: Lawrence P. Hall '19, President; Charles R. Hoover, First Vice-President; and Charles D. Lowry, Second Vice-President. Hall is professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin and was formerly on the staff here...
This week, passing through Chicago on his way home to Stanford University from a campaign trip in the East, Herbert Hoover paused to issue a statement, his first on the subject of his candidacy for 1936. Excerpt...