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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James R. Slagle, 25, of Brooklyn, has been blind since his freshman year in high school. A graduate of St. John's University, he is close to a doctor's degree in advanced mathematics at M.I.T., where his grades average 4.9 out of a possible 5. In his spare time Student Slagle works as a staff mathematician at M.I.T.'s famed Lincoln Laboratory. ¶ Robert J. Winn Jr., 23, of Dallas, began to lose his vision at the age of six. He is about to receive a B.S. at North Texas State College, has had eleven...
...Vassar girl. I never went to school a day in my life. I was raised, if you wish to call it that, in vaudeville, going from town to town, playing with musicians, acrobats, dancers, even freaks. Some were nice, some tender, some vicious. Many were genuinely bigtime, and you knew it the moment you were with them. Others were simply small-time human beings-petty, meager-minded, whiny, changing from week to week as we traveled from town to town...
Moscow-based news contingent, Pravda keeps 60 fulltime correspondents scattered throughout Russia, another 28 in world capitals. The paper controls a sanitarium, five Moscow apartment buildings, a secondary school, a school for printers, and the Pravda House of Culture. Its mammoth printing plant-49 Linotypes, 5,000 employes-harvests a handsome profit by printing 20 other newspapers and magazines on contract...
...Seattle, but only by a quirk of fate (his engineer father had taken his family there while working on a construction job). He was indisputably a Boston product. He had gone to Noble & Greenough and Harvard (1920), taken a dutiful fling at engineering, gone back to Harvard Business School to study finance, put in his time in a Boston investment banking house. The trustees hired...
...temptation with Jack Lewis was to call him a banker's banker. He was that -careful, conscientious, orderly minded, a worker who went to Union Dime right after high school in West Orange, N.J. and trudged through the business from messenger to bookkeeper, from assistant head bookkeeper to assistant secretary, from assistant treasurer to treasurer to vice president to executive vice president and finally, in 1948, president. He dressed like a banker, in severe greys and blues, lived where the bankers live, out among the rolling lawns and towering oaks of Short Hills. He married, raised two children...