Word: knowleses
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Each year five Overseers are elected for six year terms. The candidates in order on the ballot are: Elizabeth B. Dubois '62, Humphrey Doerman '52, Manley Fleischmann '29, Gerard Pier '37, Dr. John H. Knowles '47, Walter H. Page '37, Eli Goldston '42, Marilyn W. Monsour '45, Joseph W. Bartlett...
Dr. John H. Knowles '47, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, was last year's Chief Marshal. Seven alumni including Attorney General Richard D. Kleindeinst '47 and Clifton R. Wharton Jr. '47, president of Michigan State University, were nominated for the post.
At the Devon School (portrayed by the Phillips Exeter Academy), young men sport and struggle through their studies, only intermittently aware of the global conflict that rages outside their ivy cloister. The movie, an unreasonably faithful adaptation of John Knowles' novel, begins in the summer of 1942, currently a...
To keep fit, Knowles plays squash and golf at his several clubs. (Membership in ethnically exclusive clubs would have been a handicap at Boston University, and Knowles says that he would have resigned from them if necessary.) He gave up cigarettes years ago, now smokes only an occasional ceremonial cigar...
Occasionally verbose but always articulate, John Knowles delivered himself of the following dicta in an interview with TIME'S Ruth Galvin: