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Though he has never taught a class in his life and has never earned a doctor's degree, Robert Gordon Sproul is president of one of the world's largest universities. He has held the job since 1930, now gets $17,500 a year. Businesswise, back-slapping Bob Sproul (rhymes with jowl) acts like what he is: the capable sales manager for a mammoth educational chain-store (the University of California, with eight campuses, 38,864 students...
Until last week, Californians worried (as they often have cause to) that they might lose popular Bob Sproul...
...week's end, the Bank's prestige had fallen so low that its directors supposedly called on Harry Truman to draft a man for the president's job. Their latest choice: Allan Sproul, 50, who heads the Federal Reserve Bank of New York but is not the kind of "name" the bank needed. While Sproul (rhymes with owl) was mulling over the offer, another name was dropped in the hat: Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson...
More optimistic, President Robert G. Sproul, of the University of California, said, "The prospects for higher education at the University of California were never brighter. . . . Nor do we expect to be demoralized by the veterans or to demoralize them...
...University of California's President Robert G. Sproul: "The prospects for higher education at the University of California were never brighter. . . . Nor do we expect to be demoralized by the veterans or to demoralize them...