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...eventually a Ph.D. His thesis on the nature of the decision-making process, titled Risk, Ambiguity and Decision, was so complicated and so incisive that he became an overnight star in the rapidly developing field of systems analysis. Ellsberg joined the Rand Corp., where he became the prot??gé of Henry Rowen, currently the corporation's president...
Balance & Consensus. Prot??gé of the austere Pius XII, close friend of the jovial John XXIII, Giovanni Battista Montim in the third year of his pontificate has slowly emerged from the shadow of his great predecessors with a style and program all his own. John was an intuitive, charismatic prophet who threw open the windows and doors of the church to let in fresh air without worrying about?or even fully understanding?the consequences. By contrast, Paul is a detached and painstakingly analytical technician who has left the windows open?but who keeps checking the thermometer lest any cold drafts...
...York on his yacht Infanta sailed John Barrymore with a 10-year-old brunette "prot??gée" named Elaine Barrie. Next day a legal advertisement in Los Angeles warned that Actor Barrymore would be responsible for no debts but his own. Day after, Mrs. Dolores Costello Barrymore sued him for divorce, charging cruelty and habitual drunkenness...
...serving his Government when he undertook to dicker for the butchers and promised them safe entry into Germany. This blunder was irretrievable but it gave intuitive Chancellor Hitler one of his bright ideas. He has long been looking for a way to ease German Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen, prot??gé and "best comrade" of President von Hindenburg, out of his Cabinet (TIME, July 9). Impulsively Chancellor Hitler dashed off an effusive letter, "requesting you, Dear Herr von Papen to aid ... in [bringing] back to normal and friendly paths our long unfortunate relations to the German Austrian State. ... I have...
...Another prot??gé of Coach Daughters is University of Washington's amazing Jack Medica, who, at the A. A. U. men's championships at Chicago month ago, broke the world's record for the mile in 20:57.8. smashing the records for the 350, 1,100 and 1,320-yd. distances on his way. At 19, he now holds seven world and eleven U. S. records. Son of an Italian office clerk, Swimmer Medica likes spaghetti, milk, beer. Excessively lazy, he walks as little as possible on his way to and from practice, lies dozing beside the pool until called...