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...THRUSTON BALLARD MORTON, 45, to be an Assistant Secretary of State. Tall, husky (6 ft. 2 in., 184 Ibs.), and a youthful-looking hustler, Morton is a seventh-generation Kentuckian from Louisville, a Yaleman (class of '29), and formerly head of his family's flour mill firm, Ballard & Ballard, which was bought out by Pillsbury Mills in 1951. In World War II he served with the Navy, a lieutenant commander on minesweepers and destroyers in the Pacific. He has had three postwar terms as a Republican Congressman, is an outspoken internationalist, led the pro-Eisenhower forces in Kentucky...
...Said Thruston ast night, 'I am torn between my love for Jane and the rogue in my spirit. What I wil decide, nobody knows, including myself." His voice sounded dreamy. "I might even ship her a spitting cobra," he mused...
...following officers were elected: president, S. Bowles '08, general secretary of the Intercollegiate Democratic League; vice-president, G. P. Thruston, Jr., 1G.; secretary, J. E. Dewey...
...committee consisting of S. Bowles '08, J. L. Boyce '10, J. E. Dewey '09, H. von Kaltenborn '09, G. P. Thruston, Jr., 1G., and J. S. Whitney '08, was appointed to draw up a constitution to be submitted at the next meeting. As several prominent Democrats, among them Governor Johnson of Minnesota, might be willing to speak at Harvard, the officers were empowered to arrange for speeches in the Union during the spring. The president was directed to appoint five members to serve with the officers as an executive committee, and to appoint a committee to arrange for club smokers...