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...Roxbury Latin School had tried to keep Conant out—his mother said he couldn’t spell—Harvard invited him in. Until 1953, the chemist and self-made man would promote the sciences, standardization, and academic scholarships, and often worked off-campus on the Manhattan Project. Conant’s successor Nathan M. Pusey ’28, had a strong presence at Harvard, and not just for academic reasons. An August 8, 1953 headline from the Boston Globe stated that, according to the “girls,” Pusey...
...32—opposed Pusey’s candidacy. Unanimity is generally expected, Schlesinger said. In the last presidential search, Lawrence H. Summers also gained unanimous approval from the Overseers. Summers’ confirmation meeting was held on the 64th floor of a Rockefeller Center skyscraper in midtown Manhattan. —Staff writer Stephanie S. Garlow can be reached at sgarlow@fas.harvard.edu...
...Clayton was the only one that succeeded in pulling off an 8-4 win at No. 3, while No. 2 Denenberg and Valkin lost, 8-5, and No. 1 junior Ashwin Kumar and freshman Michael Hayes lost, 9-8(4). NOTE: Sunday’s scheduled match against Manhattan was postponed until the weekend of Feb. 24 after the Jaspers’ bus experienced technical difficulties. —Staff writer Jonathan B. Steinman can be reached at steinman@fas.harvard.edu...
...most Rev. Peter Akinola of Nigeria was in New York City late in January making one of his increasingly frequent forays into what he once would have considered enemy territory. Only journalists from religious publications were invited to cover the occasion, at Manhattan's swank Metropolitan Club--which probably suited the Archbishop, who has become wary of the mainstream press since a December New York Times story that advisers feel wrongly portrayed him as a homophobe. But a friend of the Nigerian primate's told TIME that Akinola received a standing ovation. The actual guest of honor was a Christian...
...dropping out of Temple University ("I went on the six-year you-don't-quite-graduate program, which I completed successfully," he told TIME), Gitomer owned two race horses in Philadelphia, sold mobile-home lots with his father to retirees in Florida and later manufactured and sold sportswear in Manhattan, learning what was missing from his business-school classes. "They don't tell you that somebody's check is going to bounce and you have to go after him to get it," he says...