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...upstate New York paper-mill worker, washed dishes through Colgate, took his law at Cornell, became at 23 a member of New York District Attorney Tom Dewey's clean-sweeping staff, sometimes presented as many as 40 minor cases a day. After a World War II stint in the Navy he got the job of chief counsel to the U.S. Senate Investigations Subcommittee, then headed by Michigan Republican Homer Ferguson. As a result of his committee work, Army General Benny Meyers was packed off to jail, and so was Five-Percenter John Maragon, in an investigation that unlocked...
...Atomic Energy, served as chairman during the crucial years 1953-54, during which U.S. H-bombs were under test in the Marshall Islands, helped rewrite the basic U.S. atomic energy law to get the U.S. into the atoms-for-peace business. Last year he also put in a stint as a member of the U.S. delegation that helped set up the first world atoms-for-peace organization, the International Atomic Energy Agency...
...Iran wrote to his friend Franklin Roosevelt and asked him to recommend a composer who could set Walter Camp's "Daily Dozen" physical exercises to Persian rhythms for use by the Iranian army. The U.S. State Department knew just the man: Composer Henry Cowell, then doing a stint as music editor of OWI. Cowell polished off the job in a few days, saw thousands of his records pressed and shipped off to Iran to ease the deep, daily kneebends practiced by the Shah's sturdy troops...
...Gloves. Some of the neglect may be traced to the man himself. "I'm a hermit and I have no friends," says Cozzens candidly. For almost a quarter-century, except for a three-year stint writing manuals and speeches...
...newly created position of board chairman. Born in Moscow Mills, Md., Malcolm astonished his family by shooting up to 6 ft. 3 in. in his early teens, earning the lifelong nickname "Weed," whizzed through the University of Maryland to a doctor's degree in bacteriology. After a stint as senior bacteriologist at Massachusetts' state antitoxin laboratory, he went to Cyanamid's Lederle Laboratories in 1934, three years later gave the company a major breakthrough by developing a fast, inexpensive way of growing anti-pneumonia serum in rabbits instead of horses. By the time he was 36, Malcolm...