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Appointed in February by President Conant, the committee was chaired by Provost Buck and included three members of the Overseers' Visiting Committee on Athletics (Francis Kernan, Jr.'24, Frederic C. Church '20, and Frederick S. Moseley '36) and Dean Bender and John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House...
...Jean kernan '50 was put in charge of lighting effects and Virginia Carroll '51 was added to the Executive Board. Jane Prescott '51 became assistant production manager...
From 1932 to 1936, Patcèvitch did an expert trouble-shooting job on Paris Vogue (he was succeeded by Thomas Kernan, author of Paris on Berlin Time) and married London Vogue's beautiful Nada Jellibrand. When he returned to Manhattan, Condè Nast put him on the board of directors. Special Patcèvitch talents are: 1) social graces and fashionable tastes that blend perfectly with the smart world of Condè Nast Publications; 2) a canny head for business management. The second talent is the one that is most needed...
...Italy scheme, it sounds like another example of the Gallipoli at which Colonel Kernan rails so effectively. Unless he has information on the present control of the Mediterranean which is unknown to the layman he would appear to speak unwisely. He may continue to dismiss the value of sea power with the pat chapter title "Mahan Was Wrongl," but until he brings facts rather than sarcasm to bear on the Admiral's theory, control of the sea lanes will still have a certain appeal to warring powers and the Mediterranean will still be a difficult "mare nostrum" in which...
Perhaps in the end we can align ourselves with the Washington admiral who told the press that he agreed with Colonel Kernan's title but couldn't vouch for the validity of all his theories. The only difference is that the admiral hadn't read the book...