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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hold the seat, the Wall Street lawyer was roundly defeated by Democratic ex-Governor Herbert Lehman. An early supporter of Eisenhower over conservative Republican Robert Taft, he helped write the foreign-policy plank for the 1952 G.O.P. platform. President-elect Eisenhower put him at the top of the list of choices for Secretary of State, a position he would also have achieved if either Republican candidate, Dewey or Taft, had become President...
Question: "Did you make good grades?" Answer: "Well, I believe I was relatively close to the dean's list part of the time." Question: "Could you estimate where you stood in your class from the top or the bottom?" Answer: "No, sir, I never checked on that." Fulbright, Rhodes scholar and onetime president of his alma mater, the University of Arkansas, was incredulous. Asked he: "You weren't interested in trying to learn?" (In fact, Yale does not rank its students...
France leads the list of countries to be visited, with eight Experimenters and four leaders from Harvard and Radcliffe. Six Experimenters and three leaders will go to Germany and 11 Experimenters will be in other Western European countries...
Werner W. Jaeger, University Professor, who retires next month after many years of brilliant work in the classics, and Ernest F. Gombrich, visiting professor of Fine Arts and During Lawrence Professor of the History of Art at London University, are two more high on the list of prospectives...
Instinctively looking for something solid to lean on, he turned to his master reading list. With rapid, but controlled glances he searched for an oversight. The hunt was fruitless, though, for his check, counter-check system left no room for mistakes. The blame, clearly, lay with Miss Schroeder...