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Also elected were: Stephen H. Goodwin '64, business manager; William R. Ferguson '65, poetry editor; Richard M. Travis '65, prose editor; Philip H. Heckscher '65, review editor; Carl F. Nathan '66, managing editor; Kevin Lewis '65, assistant business manager; and Elisabeth A. Polk '65, secretary...
David L. Halberstam '55 has won the George Polk Memorial Award for excellence in journalism. Halberstam, a former managing editor of the CRIMSON, received the prize for a series of news articles written on the current war in Vietnam, where he was a correspondent for The New York Times until January...
Seldom did Baker deviate from his prepared statement. One time was when Committee Counsel Lennox Polk McLendon, 74, a self-described "country lawyer" from North Carolina, noted that Baker had previously refused to turn his records over to the committee, hopefully suggested that by now Baker might have changed his mind. "You don't know me," snapped Baker. "Whatever reputation I made in the Senate, my word was my bond. When I told you I was not going to testify, that ended it." Again, Rhode Island's Democratic Senator Claiborne Pell asked if Baker, who had begun...
Solid & Durable. The traffic moves in both directions; big-time lawyers shift readily into high posts in business and government. The late John W. Davis of Davis Polk Wardwell Sunderland & Kiendl left Wall Street in 1924 to be come the Democratic candidate for President; he lost and went back to lawyering. Several Cabinet officers, Henry L. Stimson and John Foster Dulles among them, have been Wall Street lawyers. Defense Secretary McNamara's newest deputy, Cyrus Vance, came from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. The big outfits, sometimes referred to as "factories" (the term makes the lawyers wince), also supply a sizable...
Daniel Boone James K. Polk...