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Hugh Diman was a rugged, ruddy Episcopal minister of a fashionable Rhode Island summer church. In 1896 he decided to become a schoolmaster. He had one master and eleven pupils when he started "Diman's School for Small Boys" in Newport, R.I. Gradually his posh Newport parishioners sent him their sons. Twenty years later, when Headmaster Diman retired, St. George's (as the school had been renamed) had 120 boys, a sizable debt, and a sizable scholastic reputation...
...Washington, both have consulted with famed atom-expert Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer. Each has enough "technical advisers" to set up a Hollywood branch of the Nuclear Physicists' Club, although there is little new which the scientists can disclose. Tension has mounted: customers at Mike Romanoff's posh eatery now talk in whispers instead of in the regulation Hollywood yell. Dark diplomacy is hinted...
After attending a service at the posh, progressive Eglinton Avenue United Church, a United Church minister in Toronto was invited to stay for the young people's meeting. When he went upstairs, he found the young people (with perhaps 100 adults present) bellowing a song, to the strains of I'm Nobody's Sweetheart...
...huge ship's bow with five stars, hawsers, other seagoing gizmos was built in front of City Hall, and vast mobs gathered to watch the Admiral go aboard to the shrill of bosuns' calls. In the evening 2,000 people paid $15 a plate to attend a posh Waldorf-Astoria dinner where Admiral Nimitz* was introduced by Nelson Rockefeller...
...ministerial career by settling a serious railwaymen's strike twelve hours after taking office. A onetime printer's devil, he went to Buckingham Palace for his seals of office in a grey flannel suit, because "I hadn't the time to get myself up all posh...