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...service as assistant corporation counsel for New York City under Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, who thought Gaud was qualified to become mayor himself some day. An army colonel in charge of lend-lease operations for the China-Burma-India theater during World War II, Gaud put in a brief postwar stint as special assistant to War Secretary Robert Patterson, then went into private practice in New York City. Not until 1961 did he return to public service to direct aid programs for the Middle East and South Asia. "I've had a 15-year rest," he said then...
Divorced. John Schlesinger, 43, one of South Africa's biggest land developers, currently worth $70 million; by Anna Lee Iva Schlesinger, 42, a New Yorker he married during a World War II stint as a U.S. Air Force bombardier; on uncontested grounds of adultery; after 22 years of marriage, including eight years of separation, and two children; in Pretoria, South Africa...
...loving father had been found at last. Boswell fell at the great man's feet to confess what a bad boy he had been and to beseech counsel. Johnson gave it without stint, and when Boswell sailed for the continent a few weeks later he made a two-day journey to Harwich to put him on board and to comfort a frightened young man he had known little more than two months...
Changed Climate. A millionaire electrical-equipment dealer, Sorensen served a stint as president of the city council from 1957 to 1961, then dropped out of politics. He was persuaded to come out of retirement to oppose Dworak in the city's nonpartisan mayoral election, handily won with 62.5% of the vote. One of Sorensen's first actions was a dramatic and symbolic one: he sold Omaha's crumbling, 75-year-old City Hall to the Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society, moved city workers into an abandoned Elks building, and launched plans...
...strong stint will shove any of these three to the fore of Shepard's thinking, especially after the poor showings Saturday at Penn by Jim McCandlish and John Scott, the mainstays of last year's Crimson staff...