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Coy, 37, a young Indianan who worked under Harry Hopkins as a State WPAdministrator, was a longtime protege of Indianan Paul McNutt, outgrew McNutt to become increasingly important to the President as a drafter of domestic and defense programs. He is spectacled, sallow, and extremely fast of mind.
Radio, on the other hand, was adopted in the spring of 1939 and almost immediately became the protege of the Faculty. In 1940, it did a series of programs with the Civilization Councillors over short wave station WRUL. Professor Friedrich gives a section on the radio as a social force...
To Justice Holmes the decision was one which had to be overturned. Years later, when his days were running down, he told his promising secretary-protege, a handsome, huge-headed young Rhode Island Irishman named Thomas Gardiner Corcoran, to take up the task. Corcoran vowed, when he entered the Government...
Outstanding consistent performer is Sophomore Del Ames, erstwhile protege of Otto Schniebs at Hanover and unquestionably last year's most valuable skier. Not only does he tear down mountain trails and through tricky slaloms, but he's hard to best in the jumping and cross country events. Another lad expected...
Although McKay regards Newscaster Stearns as his protege, he admits that he still has quite a way to go before he comes up to the level of Fulton Lewis Jr. Checking on a twelve-minute ad lib broadcast by Lewis from the Democratic Convention Hall in Chicago, McKay discovered only...