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Cambridge has turned up more than its share of young literary discoveries recently, so few will be shocked at the publication of a novel by a Harvard freshman, or even surprised that he wrote it while at Hotchkiss. What would be surprising would be the publication of a good novel by a Harvard freshman, but for that I'm afraid we shall have to wait until at least next season...
Massey-Ferguson is now working to acquire the tractor plant of England's Standard Motor Co. Ltd., and the diesel engine facilities of England's F. Perkins Ltd. The firm has expanded its operations in France, doubling its stockholdings in Standard-Hotchkiss, a French tractor maker, to 50%. But energetic Al Thornbrough still looks to the U.S. for the even bigger market that Massey-Ferguson must have before it can shuck all its troubles. He has purchased Mid-Western Industries of Wichita, Kans., a leader in the light industrial-equipment field, doubled the size of the Detroit tractor...
Early Years. Son of gregarious Ohio Republican James Garfield Stewart, sometime mayor of Cincinnati (1938-47), now a state supreme court judge. After prepping at Hotchkiss. young Potter wavered between law and journalism at Yale, was chairman of the Yale Daily News, tried a summertime stint as a cub reporter on the Taft family's Cincinnati Times-Star before finally deciding on law. Graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa (1937)) ne spent a year studying international law at Cambridge University on a Henry Fellowship (awarded to four U.S. college graduates a year), then graduated from Yale Law School...
...attended Hotchkiss, Class of '45, and the U.S. Navy, Class of '46--the first offering a large measure of extracurricular activity, the latter those, pleasures of a heavy cruiser in peacetime duty. He then went to Yale, which afforded its own peculiar opportunities. While at Yale, for instance, Labaree shared in several abortive attempts to establish a student council, and later participated in the movement to bring the N.S.A. to New Haven (which seems ample preparation for coping with the present term at Harvard...
...Measure for Measure, apart from which House Party resembles A Comedy of Errors. To the antediluvian Ames mansion at Pruitt's Landing, an "unspoiled" Long Island town, repairs the following partial cast of characters, some Ameses and some not: a superannuated dandy who is chauffeured about in a Hotchkiss landaulet; a Manhattan model; a frustrated young architect who works for Vahan Rabadab Associates ("All Rabadab buildings looked like banks of file cabinets with the drawers open"); a proletarian scowler ("No thanks, I don't usually bathe until Saturday night"); a divorcee with an "I'm-a-dangerous...