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...home with grotesquely protruding bellies, infected livers, horny thickening of the palms of their hands. Such symptoms are the result of the starchy foods (yams, corn meal, potatoes, plantains, rice) that make up a child's daily fare throughout large areas of Latin America. But last week Dr. Nevin Scrimshaw of the U.S. proudly exhibited a greyish meal that offered a promise of real help...
...John Nevin Bauman, 57, moved into the presidency of White Motor Co., replacing Robert F. Black, 66, who continues as chairman and chief executive officer. "Nev" Bauman joined the truck manufacturer 34 years ago; with a master's degree in engineering from the University of Michigan, he worked a while as an engineer, then found his niche in sales. A relaxed, persuasive talker, he kept selling and rising, and when Black came in to revive the sick company in 1935, he made Bauman sales vice president. Together the two men hiked White's sales from $20 million...
John Andrew Nevin loved his work. Like many another dedicated careerman, he wanted to take some of it home with him. The only trouble was that John was a caretaker in London's rambling Victoria and Albert Museum, and the treasures he watched were not his. Finely fashioned furniture from another century, antique jewelry as delicate as a butterfly's wing, miniatures from Persia, figurines of ivory and jade from lands whose very names were magic-John loved them all and hated to leave them at the end of a working day. Little by little, beginning back...
Those honored are: Richard F. Athey, Fred F. Berry, Jr., Woodford L. Flowers, Harry B. French, Donald W. Graham, Bradford K. Kroha, John J. Nevin, Warner F. Rankin, Jr., Starr F. Schlobohm, Harry A. Sidles, Roland L. Sundstrom, Allen R. Warrington, John R. Yarnell. None are Harvard graduates...
...Louis Nevin, U.P.'s Ralph Forte and Haynes Thompson, I.N.S.'s H. Edward Knob-laugh, TIME'S Piero Saporiti, Chicago Tribune's Jocelyn Bush...