Word: rotaryism
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In New Mexico, John Philip Wernette had two strikes .against him from the start : he was an Easterner and a Harvard professor. As soon as he took over the presidency of the University of New Mexico, it was obvious that he would not fit in. An aloof man with a...
One sentimental O'Brien column, written the day his son Donel went off to war -and death-told a universal story. It was reprinted in Reader's Digest, read on the radio and at Rotary Clubs.
The loneliness disturbs a friendly fellow like Bob Sproul, who is Rotary's best foot forward.† He works hard trying to make everybody happy. At the freshman receptions, Sproul turns on what he calls his "astonishing memory," amazes and flatters a newcomer by pumping his hand and roaring...
* Goober-hanging": a discreet daytime version of what grandmother called spooning. A less active sport is "piping the flock," when Cal males watch Cal "quails" preening in the sun on the steps of Wheeler Hall. * The eight: Berkeley, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, the agricultural college at Davis, a medical center...
Soon after it was discovered, four years ago, Oklahoma's great West Edmond oilfield (TIME, Aug. 21, 1944) became the scene of a scramble. Many individual wildcatters and companies, using the greatest concentration of rotary drilling rigs in the world, began boring into its 30,000 acres in a...