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...classics to economics, he taught at eight universities, founded a school, finally became one of U.S. education's elder statesmen. By last week, as he published his autobiography at 77 (Pioneer's Progress; Viking Press, $5), he could justly make the claim: "I possessed an educational green thumb. Intellectual plants grew under my hand...
Another important question is: "Who will replace Bill Weber at defensive left end?" Weber has a broken thumb...
...snow-remover, beer-deliverer's helper. He spent three years in the Army (partly ferrying supplies from England to Normandy), and returned to the old blank round. Rocky had boxed a bit in the Army; after his return he did some amateur boxing for fun-and broke his thumb. That small misfortune made him. "It cost money to fix the thumb," he recalls, "so I thought I might as well earn some fighting." His first professional fights were in Providence, 30 miles away. To get in condition, he used to walk there...
Back from the Veranda. The secretary led Kesa to Parliament, and told him where to put his thumb mark on official papers in lieu of his signature, since Kesa could not write. Otherwise, he left Kesa alone at his desk, to make of the proceedings what he could. Kesa did not understand a word of what was spoken, but as the session wore on, he began to understand something of parliamentary principle. He saw that even Prime Minister Nehru was the servant of Parliament, and could be shouted down and booed. He began to realize that Representative Kesa...
...extremist student groups. The far left-wing element regularly denounced him as "a tool of Wall Street." This attitude was exemplified by an article in "The Nation" by a former head of the University News Office who denounced Conant, but added that "I hardly expect the University to thumb its nose at the Wall Street bankers who now help administer its finances...