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...evening final of the individual medley, before a scattered gathering of fellow competitors and a few stray ushers, Pringle took the lead at the first turn of his opening butterfly stint. On the backstroke lap, the versatile junior opened up a body-length lead over Dartmouth's Terry Bentley, a butterfly specialist, who was racing on Pringle's right...
...Burgess Hill operates on the hopeful theory that freedom breeds responsibility, not license. This exactly suits Headmaster East, 46, a bachelor who believes that discipline dulls the spirit. The son of a professional soldier, East once aspired to be an Anglican priest, studied theology after Cambridge. When a wartime stint in the R.A.F. eroded his faith, he turned his fervor to children. Eight years ago, he took over Burgess Hill "to establish a community in which the individual can find out for himself the extent to which he must curb his personality so he can work well with others...
...Moroccan Chieftain El Glaui, has hobnobbed with Balkan rebels, shipped on freighters, and he has been described as a "sea pirate come to land." In 1924, he wrote what is called Britain's first radio drama. Danger, for which he still gets royalties; he served a wartime stint with the British Admiralty, and then wrote a history of naval procurement in World...
...hired by Leon Henderson as an official in the newborn Office of Price Administration, later became OPA deputy administrator. Galbraith looked on helplessly for two years as his six-man staff swelled to 16.000 and every one of his mechanisms for price control proved unworkable. From a stint at FORTUNE, which he credits with teaching him to write, he returned to Harvard. (In 1937 he had married Kitty Atwater, who became one of Harvard's best German instructors...
MacLeish came to the Professorship in 1949, after a varied career in public affairs, which included service as Assistant Secretary of State. A native of Illinois, he graduated from Yale and from Harvard Law School and served in France in World War I. After free lance writing and a stint on the staff of Fortune Magazine, MacLeish became the first Curator of the Nieman Fellowship in Journalism at the University...