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...managers commonly charge that middle-level White House staffers responsible for business relations do sloppy, second-rate work. Big Business's formal contact at the White House is Stephen Selig, 36, whose main credentials seem to be that he plays tennis with Presidential Adviser Jordan and that his father, a wealthy Atlanta real estate developer, was a longtime supporter of Carter's. Corporate leaders have had a hard time taking him seriously since his first meeting with them, when Selig turned up at an exclusive Washington club wearing a leisure suit...
...while Bok managed to smile gracefully, as though he had finally learned his way around these tribal rites of Harvard alumni, Harry Selig positively beamed. Fifty straight years! He hasn't missed one 25th reunion, starting in 1926 with the Class...
...Yeah, the first time was 1926," Harry said, "when a friend of mine called and asked if I'd take pictures of his 25th Harvard reunion. I came to that one, and then I did the Class of 1902, then 1903, then 1904. . ." Harry Selig stopped talking and simply grinned. He is a short man with gray hair along the sides of his head and not very much on top. He'll be 70 in four months--"But I don't look it, do I?" he kept saying...
...Harry Selig, still beaming, was talking about The Hundred Club, an organization he founded to help widows of policemen and firemen in Massachusetts. The organization now has 2100 members, each of whom pay dues of $250 a year; and whenever a policeman or fireman dies, the club gives the widow $2,500 in cash and $10,000 in scholarships for the kids or other assistance...
...brief question period that followed, classmates served up four cream-puff questions to Bok and his colleagues. Then, on their way to lunch, alumni scrambled up the steps of Widener, where Harry Selig, barking through a bullhorn, choreagraphed them into an enormous wedge for the official class portrait--his 50th...