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...Ayer's only surviving child, but not until he had amply proved his ability to manage the agency wisely and well. In June 1936, Wayland Ayer Fry, fresh from Colage University, went to work for N. W. Ayer & Son to learn the business from the bottom rung, as his father had done before...
...morning came a loud buzz on the doorbell of the White House Offices. Secret Service men rushed out-for not in months had that bell been rung-glared at a man who meekly said, ''I am Judge Mack of Poughkeepsie. I have an appointment to lunch with the President." So he had, for he was to suggest to the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia this week, as he did in 1932, that it ought to nominate Franklin Roosevelt for President...
...shift was not only a hard-earned promotion but the fulfillment of a precedent which has become part of U. S. journalistic tradition. For 30 years, as Bill Hawkins and Roy Howard have climbed the publishing ladder, Big Bill has repeatedly helped boost his little friend up a rung, then succeeded to the perch himself with his next step...
...Taylor climbed the first rung of University hierarchy in 1888, an advancement which he owes to a theft and subsequent hurried trip to Canada on the part of one Mr. Olmstead, his immediate superior. Approving his appointment in a letter now kept in the Auditor's desk, President Eliot described him as a "meritorious and useful assistant...
...Eliot Norton lectures in such droves as to necessitate the hanging out of the standing-room-only sign a New Lecture Hall. The repeated packing of Emerson D. last year necessitated this change of venue, which happily has proven all too confining for a Frost-bitten audience. The next rung of the ladder is Sanders Theatre which holds about three hundred more people than the New Lecture Hall and is Harvard's largest auditorium. A change to this new location should be made for the remaining three lectures so that Mr. Frost's inflated audience can be accomodated in comfort...