Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anything definite can be said about the revolutionary's hero, himself, John Reed it is that he simply was not a product of any institution, let alone Harvard. He came to Cambridge in 1906, a product of a proper Eastern prep school and one of the wealthiest families in Oregon. During the fourteen years following, he had graduated, spent months in jail, become a famous American war correspondent, written several books, taken a leading part in the Russian revolution, been elected to the Executive Committee of the Communist International in Moscow, died of typhus in Russia, and been buried...
What had happened to the bright young boy with the proper background? The first and perhaps obvious guess--that Harvard "subverted him"--is the wrong answer...
...Proper Background. In appearance, manner and background, Macmillan is typecast for Foreign Secretary. He is tall (6 ft.) and debonair, with a dashing guardsman's mustache and expensive tailoring casually worn. His grandfather, Daniel Macmillan, was a Scots crofter (tenant farmer) who migrated to London, and in years ago founded the now prosperous book-publishing house of Macmillan & Co., Ltd. Macmillan's mother, the former Helen Belles of Spencer, Ind., gave him what the English call "an American connection." Wealth and precocity led to good schools (Eton and Oxford), good marks (a first at Balliol), good regiment (Grenadier...
Rebellious Years. Despite a proper Tory preparation, Macmillan spent the first half of his 30 years in politics in rebellion and dissent. In Depression years he attacked old-fashioned Tory economics, urging a society that would be "neither jungle nor beehive." He once attacked the whole government bench as "a row of disused slag heaps," and said the party was "dominated by second-class brewers and company promoters." He protested Baldwin's appeasement of Italy in the Ethiopian war by "renouncing the whip," choosing the role of parliamentary independent almost two years before Eden's better-remembered withdrawal...
...Samuel A. Levine of Harvard Medical School told the convention that relatively few patients with heart disease should have to be sent away from home for expensive diagnosis. In 90% of the cases, a family doctor with proper training should be able to make a diagnosis...