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Into Bradley's former post as executive vice president and finance chairman goes Frederic G. Donner, 54, a G.M. financial specialist since 1926. Michigander Donner (Michigan, '23) is a trim, conservative man with a passion for figures and a reputation for precision. Staff members call him an "animated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Automatic Shift | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

Dinner After Dinner. As Baba moves to her formal Indian betrothal, the characters of Nehru's India pass her eye. With the cruelty of youth and the precision of familiarity, Baba ticks them off. There is the strangely pathetic princeling drinking his schooners of champagne and serving a New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Coming of Age | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

Proponents of non-thesis honors urge that brilliant students ought to be given a free choice whether to concentrate more heavily in their field or to branch out into new distributions. To make a thesis requisite for all honors would seem to force a commitment to the academic life, a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cum Laude in General Studies | 4/14/1956 | See Source »

Far from acting like enemies who had been staring icicles at each other for weeks. Olympic Champion Albright and World Champion Heiss all but smothered each other in warm hugs for the benefit of photographers. All that talk of a feud between them, volunteered Carol's mother, Marie, was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mothers & Daughters | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

Much of his teaching, however, consists of informal work with students who come to him with their own poetry. His sympathetic enthusiasm makes him an ideal audience. His criticism, delivered with vigorous precision, is helpful and encouraging. In their early years, poets like Leslie Fiedler, Ruth Stone, and Delmore Schwartz...

Author: By Stevin R. Rivkin, | Title: Benevolent Father | 3/15/1956 | See Source »

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