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Back to Old Virginia. At 45, he became rector (a kind of chairman of the board) of the University of Virginia. He anticipated Harry Truman's Point Four program by forming the Liberia Co. to help develop the natural resources of the Negro republic. He traveled, conducted foreign-policy seminars at his estate in Virginia, wrote a book on Yalta (see BOOKS). Last spring, Big Ed's doctor ordered him to slow down...
Died. Edward R. Stettinius Jr., 49, U.S. industrialist (General Motors, U.S. Steel), onetime (1944-45) U.S. Secretary of State, later rector of the University of Virginia; of a heart ailment; in Greenwich, Conn, (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...committee in charge of the Memorial Fund is headed by Reverend Kellogg, chaplain to Episcopal Students and Rector of Christ Church. Other members of the committee are Professor I. A. Richards, F. O. Matthlessen, and Perry G. E. Miller, Associate Professor Harry T. Levin, and Mrs. Ellery Sedgwick...
...Quebec City's Laval University, where he earned his law degree, Louis' work prompted the rector to make a flat prediction: "Le petit St. Laurent ira loin [Little St. Laurent will go far]." He won the Governor General's Medal and was offered a Rhodes Scholarship. Strong-willed young Louis, with plans already made to practice law, turned down the scholarship, went to work for one of Quebec's leading lawyers...
...housed the overflow in a streamlined Quonset-type chapel which he helped to design. When Kent trustees began looking for a "live-wire with a soul" to head Kent last spring, they lit on John Patterson as their man, persuaded him to exchange his varied duties as parish rector for the narrower duties of head of a tight academic community; give up fishing in the cool lakes of Wisconsin for the streams of Connecticut...