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...voted the outstanding athlete at Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn, where he spent the first three years of a swimming career which has included winning appearances in numerous championship meets and teaching at Blandensburg, Md., High School, Columbia Grammar High School in New York, and Ohio State and Sampson, N.Y., College. He also has been field representative for the American Red Cross in the North Atlantic area, teaching first aid and water safety...
Jacob Blaustein, 56, a multimillionaire who lives at Pikesville, Md. Blaustein built a fortune in Texas and Pan American oil, is now president of the American Trading & Production Corp. A friend of Franklin Roosevelt, he made surveys of D.P.s in Germany, was vice-chairman of the Petroleum Administration for War Marketing Committee. He is now president...
Died. W. (for William) A. (for Alexander) Julian, 78, $10,330-a-year Treasurer of the United States, custodian of some $251 billion, whose signature appears on all U.S. folding money issued since he was appointed in 1933; in an automobile accident; in Bethesda, Md...
Died. James Vincent Forrestal, 57, onetime Secretary of the Navy (1944-47) and the nation's first Secretary of Defense (1947-49); by jumping from a 16th-floor window of the Bethesda, Md. Naval Hospital (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
There was nothing unusual about the 127 young men, except one thing. Their entire college education had consisted of studying the 100 Great Books. They were the alumni of tiny (present enrollment: 231) St. John's College in Annapolis, Md., where twelve years ago a former University of Chicago professor had started a small academic revolution...