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He didn't claim to be an educator, but he did have a big name and he was temporarily out of a job. To at least four universities who were looking for a president (Stanford, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, and Pennsylvania), that made Harold Stassen a likely presidential prospect.
Last week, Johns Hopkins picked another sort of president, right off the campus Harold Stassen will run. He is Detlev Wulf Bronk, 51, a top scientist.
When Johns Hopkins asked M.I.T.'s Karl Compton to submit a list of candidates, he sent back only one name-Bronk's. Largely on Compton's say-so, the university scarcely considered its 100-odd other candidates. Johns Hopkins was getting a man who once advised universities...
"Sales and earnings for the second quarter," crowed Johns-Manville Corp.'s Board Chairman Lewis H. Brown, "were the largest for any quarter in the company's history." He did not crow alone. In the spate of second-quarter reports that came out last week, many another businessman...
Downbeat. In Springfield, Ill., Symphony Conductor Constantine Johns, raising his arms for the opening chord of Faust, dislocated his back, spent the next six weeks in the hospital.