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...legal field is also represented: Deerfield Academy's Louis F. Eaton Jr. is now with a law firm in Boston; Kent School's George W. Overton with a firm in Chicago, and Choate School's Richard Young, son of Owen D. Young, is a well-known international lawyer and one of the editors of the American Journal of International...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 1, 1954 | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

...much to remember. It has turned out generals by the dozen (among them: Lieut. General James T. Moore, Major General Harry K. Pickett, Major General James B. Allison). Major Thomas D. Howie ("See you in St. Lô") went to the Citadel, and so did Korean Ace Captain Dolphin Overton. At the Citadel, a plebe is still a Doowillie, Dumbrod, Dumbsmack or Duwack; he must still "crawl" for an upperclassman. If a cadet asks, "What do plebes rank?", the Doowillie must reply: "Sir, the president's cat, the commandant's dog, the waitresses in the mess hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Citadel's Choice | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

Divorced. August A. Busch Jr., 52, hereditary president of Anheuser-Busch Inc. (Budweiser beer) ; by Elizabeth Overton Dozier Busch, 56, who also won a $1,000,000 financial settlement after charg ing him with "general indignities," desertion in 1945; after 18 years of marriage, two children; in St. Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 3, 1952 | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

...year Earl-who had been patiently raising cattle in Winn Parish and mending political fences-set boldly out to get the governorship again. He talked an oil millionaire named William C. Feazel into backing him. (After election he sent Feazel to the Senate to fill the late Senator John Overton's unexpired term, made Feazel's attorney, Seaborn L. Digby, chairman of the Conservation Commission, which decides how much oil may be pumped from wells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: The Winnfield Frog | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

Died. John Holmes Overton, 72, U.S. Senator from Louisiana since 1933, creature of the late Huey Long, but no fellow traveler of Huey's brother, Earl, the new governor of Louisiana ; after an abdominal operation; in Bethesda, Md. Senator Overton distinguished himself chiefly by plugging ceaselessly for flood control and against daylight saving time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 24, 1948 | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

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