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Personal Life. What Clint Anderson sets out to do, he does with single-minded determination. A first-rate bridge player, he competed in the Grand National Championship matches of 1933 and 1934. A determined Rotarian, he was president of Rotary International in 1932-33. In Washington, he and his wife Henrietta (the Andersons have a married daughter and son, three grandchildren) avoid the canapé circuit, spend their evenings at home, reading from one of the nation's finest libraries on the history of the West...
former Princeton football player ('52) and writer: "They have missed a fundamental aspect of American life-work." Most of the U.S. artists are drawn to Rome because it is cheaper to live there. Their down-to-earth approach is reflected in their art: painting includes recognizable images, sculpture often mirrors the human form, prose and poetry tend to be lucid, coherent and direct. Few have qualms about accepting commercial commissions. Cracked one sculptor: "For a thousand dollars I'll do a head of grandma -guaranteed to look just like grandma!" Wives for Models. Typical of Rome...
Bureau, Department of Commerce, Council of Economic Advisers) considered unsound. But insofar as the decision was based on keeping his veto record intact, it was an irrelevancy-like a baseball player, worried more about his average than anything else, bunting to keep up a hitting streak...
...atom power. Businessman Gates also brought into the Navy the best electronic bookkeeping system of all the services, bucked the admirals to inaugurate a program under which talented but untrained enlisted men now take science courses at schools such as Caltech and M.I.T. Though a devoted Eisenhower team player, Gates publicly blew his stack against Ike's Defense Department reorganization plan ("The Secretary of Defense has all the authority he needs"), cannonaded against interservice bickerings ("The Secretary of Defense continues to struggle handicapped by traditionally divided service opinions"). Anxious to return to his gold-plated Drexel investment job, Gates...
...slimmed its portfolio from 128 to 77 stocks, concentrated in defensive stocks (utilities, foods, tobacco, etc.), better able to withstand the Depression. By 1933 Robinson and his staff saw light ahead, and M.I.T. began switching out of defensive stocks and into railroads, automobiles, mining and steel. With a poker player's eye, Robinson could look at a company's present and guess its future. He personally researched the Texas Co. (now Texaco, Inc.), persuaded the trustees to buy 15,000 shares. The trust kept on buying until it had put $9,400,000 in Texas Co.; today...