Word: robert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bixler's trademark has been a constant stream of exciting outside lecturers. One week he mustered Educator Robert Hutchins, Philosopher Brand Blanshard, Industrialist Clarence Randall, Novelist Robert Penn Warren. Sometimes the results startled Bixler himself. "I am continually delighted by the student response," he once said. "There is this marvelous rising to quality. They know the genuine and the authentic. They are appealed to by the truly worthwhile...
Into Bixler's shoes this month steps Colby's Dean of Faculty Robert E. L. Strider, 42, who taught English at Connecticut College before switching to Colby in 1957. More "intellectual curiosity" is new President Strider's aim. It would not have been possible if Colby had not risen to the quality in J. Seelye Bixler. Colby no longer gets its students mainly from Maine; it is drawing bright applicants from all over the East. Says outgoing President Bixler, who will teach religion at the University of Hawaii next year: "They aren't all topnotch students...
Stillness at Appomattox. In Memphis, Lawyer Robert E. Lee refused to defend Ulysses S. Grant, who was charged with public drunkenness, then explained: "What would people say if I lost the case...
Financier Allan P. Kirby, boss of Alleghany Corp. since the death of Robert R. Young almost two years ago, got a telephone call last week from another big moneyman. The caller: Boston's Abraham M. Sonnabend, the real estate wheeler-dealer who heads Hotel Corp. of America, Botany Industries, and a fistful of other companies. Could they set up a meeting some time later in the week? Kirby knew why. For months, Sonnabend and a group of associates had been quietly buying Alleghany stock, and they owned some 700,000 shares, or about 14% of the common stock outstanding...
...Park Lane, Commodore, Biltmore and Barclay hotels, plus several blocks of Park Avenue land. Biggest plum of all: Alleghany's 47.8% control of Investors Diversified Services, which manages five mutual funds whose combined assets total about $3 billion. This great Alleghany complex, says Sonnabend, "has been static since Robert Young died. It needs new vitality and dynamism...