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...Pappas boys," Tom and his brother John, in the dining room of their food warehouse. The brothers became important back-roomers in city and state affairs. John worked the Democratic side and was rewarded with an associate district judgeship; Tom earned some personal lOUs as a fund raiser for the G.O.P., got on the party's national finance committee and was a frequent guest at President Eisenhower's White House stag dinners. There he befriended then Vice President Richard Nixon. He also became influential in the Greek Orthodox Church...
...Office sit-in by militant black students. A Harvard man ('38) and Rhodes Scholar himself, Smith was one of the country's youngest college presidents when he assumed office at the small, Quaker-founded liberal arts school. A determinedly academic president, he shunned the role of fund raiser to concentrate on improving the quality of Swarthmore's faculty and curriculum. When 20 black students staged the current sit-in to dramatize their demands for greater black enrollment and a black studies program, the usually imperturbable Smith began to despair. "We have lost something precious here at Swarthmore...
More than most Presidents-elect, Nixon relied heavily on the supporting cast he has learned to trust from close experience. Maurice Stans (Commerce) is a colleague from the Eisenhower days and a longtime Republican fund raiser. John Mitchell (Attorney General) was Nixon's law partner and campaign manager. Wisconsin Congressman Melvin Laird (Defense) has served Nixon occasionally as an adviser. California Lieutenant Governor Robert Finch (Health, Education and Welfare) is an old friend, campaign aide and confidant. In fact, Finch is matched in the boss's esteem only by William Pierce Rogers, Attorney General in the Eisenhower Administration...
Married. Sharman Douglas, 40, daughter of Lewis Douglas, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's in the 1940s, and one of society's brightest and busiest career girls (public relations aide to New York's Mayor John Lindsay, fund raiser for numerous charities); and Andrew Mackenzie Hay, 40, wealthy British-born importer of gourmet specialties; she for the first time, he for the second; in a Presbyterian ceremony; in Manhattan...
...Fund Raiser. At his farewell press conference, Kirk insisted that he was "not interested in what anyone thinks about my victory or defeat, but only in the welfare of this university." Indeed, the rancor generated by last spring's student rebellion and some 800 arrests has tended to obscure Kirk's lasting contributions to Columbia. After taking over from Dwight Eisenhower, he created six institutes in which scholars from many fields studied selected regions of the world, built up a science faculty that won four Nobel Prizes, set top scholars to work on studies of vital contemporary problems...