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...early twenties, Ed Stettinius was a big man on the campus but nobody ever accused him of scholarship. He was student president, ran the University of Virginia's honor system, and its Y.M.C.A. He was also president of the IMPs, a club of roisterers, although he did not smoke, never drank, did teach Sunday School...
...almost four years at Virginia, interrupted by illness and a trip around Europe, Ed Stettinius earned only six of 60 credits needed for a degree; he flunked a course in Government. A latter-day president of the university said that with his "atrocious grades," Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr. would never last in school today. But Stet clearly earned his V in life...
...time he was 31, Ed Stettinius, son of a Morgan partner, was a vice president of General Motors; at 37, board chairman of U.S. Steel; then, successively in Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration, chairman of the War Resources Board, priorities director of 0PM, Lend-Lease Administrator, Under Secretary of State, then Secretary of State...
Things settled down but there were still plenty of chores to be done, and a lot of wires to be pulled. George managed the ticklish task of easing Secretary of State Ed Stettinius out to make room for Jimmy Byrnes. There was muttering around Washington over George's unofficial status...
...Stettinius Jr. and 14 other big names of politics, science and industry, serving as kind of visiting scoutmasters, will supply the "plus." A regular faculty will prepare the boys for college; Stettinius & Co. will "prepare them for life." Each of the 15 big-name visitors has promised to spend two weeks of the school year on Romford's 680 acres-teaching, hiking, fishing and just chatting with the boys. Says the catalogue: that way a Romford graduate should develop "an interest beyond the next dance...