Word: plattsburg
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Waves from Wendell. Press Secretary Hagerty's father is a newsman through and through. He is James Andrew Hagerty (the middle names are different, and Jim dislikes having a Jr. hooked on), who left the little Plattsburg (N.Y.) Press for the old New York Herald, went on to the Times, where he became one of the fine political reporters of his day (he retired in 1954). Young Jim went to Columbia (A.B. '34) and followed his father to the Times. He worked the city's political districts and, in 1938, went to the State Capitol in Albany...
...veterans managed. In twelve years almost 8,000,000 took some sort of training under the program. For those who could not qualify as regular students, Brown University set up a special school. Yale established an institute of collegiate study; New York State created Champlain College at Plattsburg. Such women's colleges as Skidmore and Bryn Mawr opened their doors to men for the first time...
George F. Conley, Jr. 3GSD of Plattsburg, New York, and 358 Harvard Street, will study at the University of Paris; Howard E. Goldfarb 3L of Washington, Pennsylvania, and Story Hall, at the University of Grenoble; Aram J. Kevorkian 3L of Philadelphia and 22 Wendell Street, at the University of Strasbourg...
Hagerty was born in Plattsburg, N.Y., started reporting politics at the age of 24 on the Plattsburg Press. He became an expert on state affairs, and the New York Herald hired him away in 1910 and put him on politics. He went to the Times four years later, covered the 1920 conventions, and has never missed a convention since. During the 1932 Democratic Convention, the rival New York Herald Tribune sent a scorching wire to its convention bureau: "The Times has beaten us again on everything. Can't you do something?" The Trib bureau manager did the best thing...
McCloy came out of Amherst cum laude in 1916 and headed for the Plattsburg military training camp. He came out of the war a captain, breezed through Harvard Law ('21), spent ten years ferreting out the facts to prove German guilt for World War I's "Black Tom" explosion, thus enabling his client, Bethlehem Steel, and others, to collect $26 million in damages from German funds held by the alien property custodian. At 35, he married Ellen Zinsser, sister of Mrs. Lewis Douglas...