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Conant's election came as a complete shock to the outside world and as a surprise to many of his associates on the Faculty. He was no "wonder-boy," no "out-spoken leader," no "prominent Harvard professor," no "scion of a patrician Boston family." He was an excellent chemist, so good, in fact, that a friend couldn't understand why he would abandon his post to accept the presidency. "My sense of adventure, I guess," he said...
Erwin Bergdoll, a University of Pennsylvania student, was with Van Pelt at the time of his death. He is the son of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, scion of a former Philadelphia brewing family...
...Scion of a Boston family which had moved to Illinois, Moore naturally went to Harvard (class of '35), where he became president of Hasty Pudding and wrote the score for its 1934 show, Hades the Ladies. He had thought of making music his career, but anthropology under Earnest Hooton led him to medicine. It was not until his fourth year in Harvard Medical School that Moore decided to become a surgeon...
...scion of the plain, untitled Scrymgeours was lanky Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, Conservative M.P. for Western Ren few and Under Secretary of State for Scotland. After 2½ centuries of collecting scraps of evidence, the Scrymgeours were now ready to lay claim to the Dudhope viscountcy, but hesitated to do so because Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn did not wish to resign his parliamentary job. In the 1945 Labor landslide, Scrymgeour-Wedderburn lost his seat, and the family presented its case...
Before long, Yvonne has wound up in San Francisco with Hudson's cash, and is palming herself off as the war widow of the scion of a wealthy Nob Hill family. But she is not really happy. "All of a sudden," she admits, "I've got everything I want, but I don't want anything I've got." She is also smarting under a crack made to her by Hudson: "Money can't do everything, Roxy. There's a certain thing called class, and you haven...