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Dates: during 1940-1949
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VIRGINIA: Harvard Club of Virginia: Robert L. Philbrick '30, 4410 Cutshaw Avenue, Richmond...
Harvard Club of Maine: Edward L. Lincoln '08, 42 Craigle Street, Portland...
Harvard Club of Martha's Vineyard: Abner L. Braley '11, P. O. Box 321, Edgartown...
Outsider In. The vast (assets over $4 billion) New York Life Insurance Co. went outside the company for a new president to replace George L. Harrison, 61, who was upped to chairman. Picked for the job was Harvardman Devereux C. Josephs, 54, onetime partner in Philadelphia's Graham Parsons & Co. brokerage house. Later he headed the Carnegie-endowed Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association, and since 1945, has been president of Carnegie Corp. where he supervised spending (about $5,000,000 in 1947) on philanthropic projects...
Veblen Girls. In the '20s Veblen, for all his misfortunes, became the hero of the sort of cult he most disliked. "Veblenism," mocked H. L. Mencken in Smart Set, "was shining in full brilliance. There were Veblenists, Veblen clubs, Veblen remedies for all the sorrows of the world. There were even, in Chicago, Veblen Girls-perhaps Gibson Girls grown middle-aged and despairing." But Veblen himself had had enough of public life. Nominated for the presidency of the American Economic Association, he coldly rejected it, remarking: "They didn't offer it to me when I needed...