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Crimson Varsity dashmen will have their hands full with ex-Olympian Charley Hutter and George Scott. Scott seems to get better with age, cutting off a fraction of a second from his 50 time for every year he is out of college...
Attorney General Robert H. Jackson was to be appointed Chief Justice, whenever Olympian Charles Evans Hughes retired. Frank Walker was not expected to remain Postmaster General; one possibility was that Senator James Mead of New York would be appointed to this post...
Fortnight ago the Milwaukee's Olympian carried Presidential Candidate Thomas Edmund Dewey up the mountain. Behind him lay 1) a record as a racket-buster so phenomenal that people were tired of hearing about it; 2) a record as a politician based on the narrow margin (about 64,000 votes) by which he was defeated for the Governorship of New York in 1938; 3) a favorite's position as voters' preconvention choice-56%, according to the Gallup poll-in the race for the Republican nomination. And before him, besides the Western ranges, lay a series of talks...
Still puzzled by this eternal dispute are historically minded laymen, who for every mad genius can cite a sweet-tempered family man like Einstein or Darwin, a sunny soul like Spinoza, an Olympian spirit like Goethe. They can complain, and do, that psychiatrists have never made clear the difference, if any, between scientific and artistic talent. Nor have the doctors explained whether a neurotic is: 1) a long-fingered person of "artistic temperament"; 2) a crank who looks under the bed every night or constantly washes his hands; or 3) a robust grappler with convention...
...died (aged 91) in 1937. Now, as in no other period of U. S. history, there is a dearth of Elders. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes's job disqualifies him. Ex-President Herbert Hoover remains too closely identified with his wing of the Republican Party to seem Olympian when he sounds off. His Cabinet as a whole are out of public sight and mind...