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...scene was the hale & hearty joiner who slapped his fellow businessmen on the back at service-club luncheons and addressed total strangers as "Tom," "Dick" or "Harry." Sinclair Lewis called him "Babbitt," H. L. Mencken called him "boob," and many another writer dismissed him simply as "a Rotarian...
...government officials. As Banking Committee chairman, he focused on the work of the Export-Import Bank of Washington and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank). Chomping cigars, he applied to his job a 20-20 insight into practical commerce, the horse sense of an Indiana Rotarian and the conviviality of a life member of the Loyal Order of Moose. His conclusion, summing up a 648-page report: general agreement with Milton Eisenhower's findings...
...result of the Baptists' aggressive evangelism. Sparkplug of this go-getting gospeling is up-and-doing Dr. Harry P. Stagg, 55, a minister who came to New Mexico from Louisiana in 1930, and has been executive secretary of the New Mexico Baptists for the past 15 years. Rotarian Stagg has pushed mission work and evangelistic camp meetings, to harvest a bumper crop of conversions from ranchers and cowboys, Indians and Spanish-Americans: about 20 New Mexican towns now have "Spanish Baptist" churches...
Other of the comics who give New Faces color are Paul Lynch with his Rotarian's account of lion-hunting in Africa and a "friend of the producer," Virginia DeLuce, who manhandles Clary and also introduces the skits in exaggerated Runyonese...
...hand at superintending-in Kalamazoo, Mich., New Rochelle, N.Y., and Kansas City, Mo.-Hunt started setting things to rights. A friendly, glad-handing Rotarian ("It's not what you eat that makes ulcers, but what eats you"), he could be ruthless if necessary. He put school jobs under civil service, withdrew temporary certificates, set up a series of stiff examinations for prospective teachers. He doubled his budget to $146 million, started a $50 million building program, streamlined his schools from top to bottom. He raised teachers' salaries almost 50%, relieved them once & for all from political pressure. "They...