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...Zealand to Harvard in twenty days on twenty dollars" was the spinechilling saga of William G. R. Marden '46, who made use of the United States Army, several trucks, an abandontd Buick, and a pretty blonde during his 12,000 mile trek across land...
...actual journey occurred last March, but Marden, the son and grandson of Harvard men, had long hoped and planned on a Harvard education. After receiving his degree from the University of New Zealand, he left his home with a pack on his back, the New Zealand equivalent of twenty dollars in his pocket, the blessings of his family and the jeers of his fellow students. Arriving at the port of Wellington, he was signed on by a U. S. troop transport on its way home from the Orient...
...Marden docked in San Francisco twelve days and eleven hours from the time of embarkation, with his twenty dollars still intact. After a cursory study of highway maps, which consisted mainly in picking out a broad red band that seemed to stretch from San Francisco to Boston, he again shouldred his pack and hit the road. Eight days later, dead-tired, broke, but happy, the New Zealander triumphantly entered the suburbs of Boston...
...result was that Sir Stafford Cripps . . . appointed a new managing director [Steelman George Ernest Marden] with full powers, whom he personally introduced to the Joint Production Committee, and that he has promised to see the workers again two months hence if they still think that the organization of the factory is unsound...
Said new Boss Marden after a visit to the plant...