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...ever to make the Rugby varsity. There he caught the eye of Alan Valentine, his predecessor as U.S. man on the Oxford varsity. Hovde went back to the University of Minnesota, joined its faculty. After Valentine became president of the University of Rochester in 1935, he made Hovde his righthand man-with time to continue work on his specialty: chemical engineering...
From a bond salesman's job with Wall Street's potent Dillon, Read & Co., he rose to head of the bond department, became President Clarence Dillon's righthand man, in 1937 took over the presidency. Eleven years earlier he had married socialite Mrs. Josephine Ogden, then on the fashion staff of Vogue. They have two sons, Michael, 15, and Peter...
Blame must be placed, since he is top boss, on the Sun's bumpkinish, pumpkinish Publisher Silliman Evans, righthand man to Owner Marshall Field. Publisher Evans has been either unwilling or unable to install high-powered, adequately experienced men in executive jobs. Result: a constant, white-hot office turmoil, and one of the biggest turnovers of employes in newspaper annals. For many, the Sun newsroom has been a worrisome place to work...
Dartmouth will offer the Varsity some of its toughest competition to date. Leading the League in fielding the Indians are powerhouses at the plate. In righthand curve-ballers will Gray and Bill Parmer they have two pitchers who might well stifle the Crimson's bats...
...bored by office routine, crazy for money and the world's fleshpots. Big devil is Munitions Tycoon Cornelius Lamsden, fiendish rhapsodizer on the worthlessness of mankind and the profit and beauty in killing with Lamsden munitions, who sends Luckypenny to Italy on a confidential mission, makes him his righthand man. By the time the double-crossing complications of the plot have lured Luckypenny to his end, Author Marshall's sermon has long since turned silly, a farce which means to be horrible but is only horribly funny...