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...Church stepped in again. This time it was her turn to do a missionary stint in Hawaii. Benson enrolled in Brigham Young University, where he matched Flora's reputation by being voted most popular man in his class, and graduated with honors. One professor recalls: "He was the smartest agriculture student I've ever had." Finally married in 1926, Flora and Ezra set off in a model T pickup truck for Iowa State College, where he had won a scholarship. They pieced out their diet with free samples of hickory squash and buttermilk from the agricultural school; within...
Labor. Before election last November labor-union leaders refused to think of anything less than outright repeal of the Taft-Hartley law. The captains of industry were generally at the other pole. By last week, Secretary of Labor Martin Durkin had some of the smartest and toughest eggs in labor and industry (e.g., the United Mine Workers' John L. Lewis, the C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther, Big Coal's Harry Moses, Big Steel's Ben Moreell) ready to sit down together to study amendments. The Administration hoped-perhaps too optimistically-to get agreement on labor policy...
...Russia your life may depend upon it. Before 1949, it was the height of intellectual fashion in the U.S.S.R. to praise an economic treatise written by one Nikolai A. Voznesensky. He won a Stalin Prize for it. Voznesensky was a favorite of Stalin's favorite Zhdanov, the smartest young economist on the Red horizon, Vice Premier at 42, and the Politburo's chief wartime planner...
...guard in 1951, plays only on offense this season. Grateful for the rest, and bounding with energy, he belted Princeton's all-American nominee Brad Glass out of almost every play last week. A one hundred and eighty two pounder, the rugged and agile Polich is probably the smartest lineman on the team. Charley Coudert, the other offensive guard, is a squat 209 pounds, and doesn't move so well as Polich. Coudert, a senior who played jayvee ball as a sophomore, second string as a junior, is the most improved lineman...
Baird Brittingham, another three year veteran is probably the smartest, fastest offensive center the Crimson has seen this year. The alert Brittingham is fast and an excellent blocker; he could start on almost any team in the country...