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...Much Alcohol. No pious bluenose, Hirsh is a hardbitten, 34-year-old health administrator who has spent nearly twelve years studying drinkers. He has worked for the U.S. Public Health Service, the World Health Organization, the Research Council on Problems of Alcohol and as chief of preventive medicine for the Twelfth Air Force in Italy. He does not denounce alcohol as the root of all evils. Says he: "Traffic accidents, crime, promiscuity and divorce go deeper and far beyond alcohol...
...though the value of his original stake had tripled, tall Laurance Rockefeller (whose Princeton '32 classmates voted him most likely to succeed and third "most pious") was not sure how long he would keep all of his McDonnell stock. The paradoxical reason: the once risky McDonnell bet now looked too safe & sound. As head of Rockefeller Brothers, Inc., a unique research and investment house, Laurance and his brothers are only interested in enterprises that offer genuine risk. When the companies are well established, the brothers think most of their money should be taken out for other speculative ventures...
...simple room, writing in a hand still firm. A Catholic living in a Catholic retreat, he calls his religion "a matter of sympathy and traditional allegiance, not of philosophy." Says he mischievously: "I believe I am the despair of the nuns here, who hope I'll become pious on my deathbed...
...blame? Partly the students. Because of the "pious sentiment" that everybody should go to college, "a halo has been cast about the word 'college,' and ... as a consequence there is a blind rush...
Contemplation v. Fishing. Chariot's own work, nonetheless, is strikingly original. His new paintings were mostly religious in theme, though they transferred the Biblical settings to Mexico.* Given Chariot's Mexican materials, a lesser artist would have done something picturesque, suitable for pious tourists, but Chariot's pictures were more than halfway abstract: the figures were squared off to look like pottery dolls and the colors were arbitrarily rich and sweet...