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...could laugh at your homey little piece on Dr. Westrick, the Fuhrer's latest appeasement-seeker in the U. S., if I was sure that no lame-brained tycoons would be taken in by its disarming simplicity...
...picnic in the country, glowering over some knotty problems at a meeting of the City Council, or mopping the heat of a burning summer day from his plastic countenance. Then there was that tragi-comic look of hurt surprise as he struck back at the disappointed job-seeker who had assailed him on the steps of the City Hall. He was the first man to arrive at the scene of a subway accident, the booted and helmeted director at every big fire, and the first male to dare express his disapproval of women's hats. Speaking over a nation-wide...
...effort to calm the crowd, which was growing sullen with cries of "Down With Sullivan" and "Make Sullivan Speak," George Robert Stange '42 delivered an address explaining the delay. Branding Sullivan a "publicity seeker" and a "red-baiter," Stange stated that some unidentified person had called Sullivan the night before to reveal that a Leftist play was being put on at Harvard...
...only will educators long remember his great munificence; but they will also remember the charm with which he gave. Never a seeker after personal glory, his gifts were made quietly and unostentatiously. He shunned public notice, would never make a speech, and conscientiously refused to grant interviews. However, the concrete memorials of his service will keep his name alive much longer than could any temporary burst of popular recognition...
...summer Richard built himself a one-lung automobile in the basement shop. Said his father, with the characteristic wrinkled grin that makes his eyes disappear: "A good mechanic's job-and I didn't help him." His other son, Robert, 27, is a Chrysler research engineer. No seeker for a college degree, he went to work for Chrysler after high school. "I gave him a four-year college course in the shop," says his father today, "and I think now that he's a damned fine mechanic...