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...school's domed, 1,000,000-volume library (now named after him) made it one of the nation's best. Quaker-born Librarian Wilson graduated from Chapel Hill in 1899, there launched the South's first library science course in 1901, the school's topflight Extension Division in 1912, the University of North Carolina Press in 1922. Robert Hutchins lured him to the University of Chicago in 1932, where he spent ten years training future heads of university libraries from Columbia to California, was elected president of the prestigious American Library Association. Back at Chapel Hill...
...grade law school in 1947, he built it into a thriving, well-financed institution, one of the country's best. Four years later he launched the Legal Center (TIME, April 30, 1951; Sept. 10, 1956), a brilliant idea to give U.S. and foreign lawyers a headquarters for topflight research. Fiery Attorney Storey ("I'm a great believer in the rule of law, not men") will continue as Legal Center president. "I don't know why anybody thinks I'm retiring," he says. "I've got enough work to keep me busy for a long time...
...Horse Marines limped toward Broadway, 21-year-old Ethel Barrymore was sick with fear. And she suffered doubly because she had been born to the stage. Her father, Maurice Barrymore, was a matinee idol. Her actress mother, Georgiana Drew Barrymore, and her uncle, John Drew, two of the topflight actors of the day, could trace their lineage back to the strolling players of Elizabethan England. Anxious not to disgrace the family, Ethel asked herself over and over again: "Why am I doing this...
Conscience of Freedom. To the secretaryship Foster Dulles brought all the years of family tradition, the skills of a long diplomatic apprenticeship, the craftsmanship of a topflight international lawyer-and an unswerving faith in his mission. Thus uniquely endowed, he held the free world's battle lines with his display of peace by military-diplomatic power ("Brinksmanship," cried the critics), took his stand as the clear, stern conscience of freedom (TIME, April...
Into the No. 2 job in the nation's No. 1, public business stepped an alumnus of the solidly schooled fraternity of bankers and lawyers that produced such topflight governmental figures as Dulles, McCloy and Dillon, Forrestal and Lovett. To succeed the late Donald Quarles as Deputy Secretary of Defense, President Eisenhower last week named Navy Secretary Thomas Sovereign Gates Jr., 53, longtime Philadelphia investment banker (see box). In a rare (at least this year) burst of nonpartisan confidence, the Senate Armed Services Committee waived its usual lengthy questioning, unanimously approved him. Gates, said Democratic Chairman Richard Russell...