Word: stuarts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some respects all Yalemen are Johnny Appleseeds at heart, dedicated to the proposition that one does not earn one's "Y in life" just for oneself alone. They might, be as different as RFC Director W. Stuart Symington and Columnist Max Lerner, both '23, or as bustling Senator William Benton of Connecticut and his lifelong friend, Robert Maynard Hutchins, both '21. But they are all apt to be men with a mission, whether it is holding high public office, running a local community chest or managing the Red Cross drive...
...that RFC has a new and vigorous boss, a lot of skeletons are coming out of the closet. Last week, Administrator W. Stuart Symington opened the door on what looked like the biggest, ugliest skeleton of all: RFC's $87 million loan to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, largest ever given to any U.S. railroad, during the regime of Jesse Jones. In the last eight years, the B. & 0. has paid back only $6,800,000, although the road is fat with profits. (Other roads have paid back 80% of their RFC loans...
...addition to his greatness as a scholar, Vietor was universally admired as a teacher as well. His interest in his students combined with his superb command of the German language made him the favorite teacher in the German Department, Stuart P. Atkins, associate professor of German, commented...
...When Stuart Symington took over as sole boss of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. last month, he announced that RFC affairs would henceforth be conducted in a goldfish bowl. Last week Stu Symington flipped two prize fish clear out of the RFC bowl and left them gasping...
Music: Douglas Stuart Moore, for a three-act opera, Giants In the Earth...