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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year businessmen who become $15,000-a-year college presidents, then no donkey need suffer an inferiority complex. I've met a few college presidents in my day; and all those who were, or ever could be, $50,000-a-year businessmen, you could list on the end of a carrot-the small...
...says-he talked back to his superior officers. But last week breezy, young (30) Bill Pardridge was having his say about aviation, and the air world was listening. As founder and editor of the quarterly Air Affairs he had rounded up for his first issue a star-studded list of contributors headed by Atomic Physicist Harold C. Urey. It was all free, too; the writers wrote for love...
...Affairs' editorial board, board of trustees and list of charter members were studded with such bigwig names as James Landis, Will Clayton, Gardner Cowles, William Benton. Pardridge had dreamed of just such a board when he was an unpromising student at the University of Chicago. There he had flunked 27 courses (freshman English four times), remained a freshman three years, never did get his degree. Later he wound up on the Chicago faculty as an $1,800-a-year research assistant in geography...
...money stake for Air Affairs, Pardridge pecked out three successive letters to a list of 2,500. Eight out of every 100 came through. The 165 individuals and 44 corporations who put up $100 or more became charter members. Sixteen hundred more (including citizens of 15 foreign countries) kicked in with $5 each for a year's subscription...
...nine years at tiny St. John's College in Annapolis, Md., Stringfellow ("Winkie") Barr has helped his students catch up on the minutes of mankind's most memorable meetings: the "100 Great Books," from Homer to Bertrand Russell. (His list, which is flexible, differs from the University of Chicago's, now numbers 109.) Last week President Barr announced he was quitting St. John's, going off somewhere else to start a new college-almost exactly like the one he was leaving...