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Abstract & Concrete. Gilmore be gan his law career late. He went to Boston Latin and to Yale (where he was a junior Phi Beta Kappa), got a doctorate in Romance languages after writing a dissertation on the 19th century French poet Stéphane Mallarmé that is still quoted by scholars. He became a teacher almost inevitably. "If one takes Romance languages, one teaches," he says. But after four years, "I couldn't stand it any longer." At 29, he went into law "because it seemed an available thing. Soon, however, I began to find it challenging...
Brel McCoy's own connection with Du Pont began when he worked for the company during summer vacations from college. After graduating from the University of Virginia (Phi Beta Kappa) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (master's degree in chemical engineering), he hired on full time in 1932 as a lowly cellophane-machine operator before advancing into such jobs as chemist, industrial engineer and purchasing agent. He rose through a succession of middle-management jobs, in 1960 became chief of Du Pont's explosives division. The following year he was named vice president and a member...
...Beta Kappa has elected its Senior Sixteen. They are: Donald M. Berwick of Winthrop House and Moodis, Conn.; James F. Coakley of Leverett and Arlington, Va.; Bruce C. Dieffenbach of Winthrop and Washington, D.C.; Stephen W. DeYoung of Adams and Rochester, N.Y.; Richard S. Ellis of Winthrop and Dorchester; and also Irwin Gaines of Lowell and New Rochelle, N.Y.; Ira G. Greenberg of Dunster and Miami, Fla.; Walter Jaros of Adams and Great Neck, N.Y.; and Michio Kaku of Leverett and Palo Alto, Calif...
Butcher's financial talent dovetails with Seabrook's knack for curing sick companies. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate ('39) of Princeton, Seabrook first rescued his own family company, Seabrook Farms, from a disastrous slump. In 1959, when his father, now dead, sold control of the frozen-food firm, Seabrook quit as president and joined Butcher. He became president of I.U. in 1965, and of General Waterworks last year. Often his doctoring of acquisitions involves nothing more startling than sending in a financial expert to bail out a sales-minded boss. "A lot of companies are mismanaged...
Female Fellini. Aline Saarinen, nee Bernstein, keeps her work bright, light and informative, without ever making the highbrow seem high-blown. A Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar, whose girlhood goal was to be "intelluptuous," she got a job on Art News "because I could spell Pollaiuolo,"* rose to managing editor in 1944, a year later joined the New York Times as an art critic. While on an assignment in 1952, she interviewed and later married Finnish-born Architect Eero Saarinen (it was her second marriage). After his death eight years later, she appeared on a 1962 CBS special on Lincoln...