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...that Conant is wholly occupied with Harvard's adjustment-in science, international studies, social relations and citizenship-to the Atomic Age, some of his former Washington associates wonder if that is the most useful spot for him. In retrospect they are more than ever impressed with his facility for learning "through the pores," for quickly grasping human as well as scientific problems-and they are quietly talking about Conant's presidential potentialities. Nobody has asked Jim Conant what he thinks, but at 53 he still has a zest for adventure...
Author McFee's memoir of his youth waddles along like an old tramp steamer, picking up a memory here, unloading a prejudice there, sleepily reviving the log of McFee's "first watch" (1906-11) as ship's engineer and as author. In retrospect, McFee isn't sure which of his two callings has meant more to him; he seems equally grateful that during the period of this piece he wrote most of Casuals of the Sea, and got his chief engineer's certificate. He also seems amazed at what a fine, steady chap young...
...forced the Service News to walk a tight-rope carrying a fine silk parasol. Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, president of the Crime in 1904, once said that he'd like to see a straight news sheet in New York City-- one carrying all the news but no editorials. In retrospect, the Service News provided a testing ground for that project, and the test wasn't entirely successful. Practically any newspaperman will admit that complete impartiality is unattainable, and a few instances will illustrate that the Service News, occassionally slipped off its tight-rope...
Half an hour before midnight the Special chuffed happily back to snowed-in Simmie. Average cost of the day had been $20 a family, but some splurged as much as $50. Said happy Simmians last week in retrospect: "It was worth...
...This attitude implies a resolute and energetic attack upon reconversion difficulties. . . . The difficulties may appear, in retrospect, to have been short-lived and of comparatively little consequence...