Word: stevenson
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Howard H. Stevenson this week became a tenured professor of Business Administration at the Business School, leaving his post as vice president and financial officer of the Preco corporation, a Springfield-based company...
...these last stories Perelman drifts more and more into a cosmic nostalgia which he fails to connect to anything relevant to non-octagenarian readers, Stories like And Then the Whining Schoolboy With His Satchel, in which the 15-year-old Perelmanesque character finds himself accused for plagiarizing Cooper, Kipling, Stevenson. The Riders of the Purple Sage and half a dozen other works in an autobiographical essay for a tenth grade class, makes it pretty far across the historical gulf. The scenario is ticklish and one need not have a turn-of-the-century birth certificate to appreciate it. Another, Wanted...
According to McLean Stevenson, then in the athletic department, Northwestern has had more than a touch of such luck...
...were nice-looking, well-mannered kids who were fun on the bus." Northwestern alum ni are more likely to be ac tors (Charlton Heston, Warren Beatty) than pro football players (only two are in the N.F.L. now: Pete Shaw of San Diego and Jack Rudnay of Kansas City). When Stevenson was cast as Colonel Henry Blake in the television show M*A*S*H, a staple of his wardrobe was to be a purple Northwestern sweater with a white N. But the colors glared on-camera; the sweater had to be dyed blue; the N was chopped down...
...postwar Presidents, both Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower stand significantly higher today than when they left the White House. Eisenhower probably could have been elected on any platform he chose in 1952, but he and his Republican handlers relished running against the Truman "mess in Washington," and poor Adlai Stevenson, from Springfield, Ill., was not allowed to change the subject. Today that mess ("Communism, Corruption, Korea") is largely forgotten; we have seen worse. And Harry Truman has a reputation as a statesman-for the first postwar line drawing against the Soviets, the Truman Doctrine covering Turkey and Greece...