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John C. Culver '54 of Cedar Rapids, Ia., and Winthrop House recived the Lionel de Jersey Harvard Studentship for study at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England. The holder of this award, which is made annually by the Associated Harvard Clubs, will occupy the rooms at Emmanuel College in which John Harvard lived when he was a student there in the 17th century...
...Chicago bureau last November to become chief of the bureau in Seattle, he recalled an incident that happened during a school vacation 20 years ago at the Chicago World's Fair. Says Schulman : "At the time, I was a native New Yorker who had never been west of Jersey before. I remember standing wistfully in the Chicago railroad yards watching the trains pull out for the West. I thought how wonderful it would be to go into those mighty spaces that I knew only from maps...
Died. Harold Giles Hoffman, 58, who zoomed in New Jersey's political firmament as a Republican Congressman (1927-31) and governor (1935-37), then, fizzled like a spent skyrocket; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. With an ambitious eye on the Republican presidential nomination in 1936, Hoffman let his vision stray to the Lindbergh kidnaping case. Bruno Richard Hauptmann stood convicted of the crime, but Hoffman, insisting that he sought justice for Hauptmann and not publicity for himself, impoliticly tried to reopen the case. He died awaiting justice for himself, under suspension as New Jersey's employment-security...
...obvious to some Republican Senators (not including the four on the committee) that this game would disrupt the functioning of the U.S. Government. At week's end Senate Republican Leader Knowland defended President Eisenhower's stand and called McCarthy's position "dangerous and doubtful." New Jersey's H. Alexander Smith went further. "Beyond belief" was Smith's label for McCarthy's contention that all federal employees had a duty to report to him any information that, in the employee's judgment, indicated illegality or impropriety in the Executive Branch. Smith also attacked McCarthy...
...should not have gone into consumer goods in the first place. Chief power-nibblers among the old Ryan groups: Alleghany Corp. President Allan Kirby, financial partner of Robert R. Young (see above); New Mexico Publisher Robert McKinney, a cousin of Bob Young; ex-Governor Charles Edison of New Jersey; Chairman Arthur M. Hill of Greyhound Corp.'s executive committee; and Houston Oilman George Brown...