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...Virginia-born Davies joined Standard Oil of California as an office boy at 17 after graduating from high school in Fresno; he rose to be a director at 32 and senior vice president at 38. Though many oilmen had tagged him as a future president, Davies and Standard parted company after his wartime service as Deputy Petroleum Coordinator under the industry's old scourge, Interior Secretary Harold Ickes. Davies then founded American Independent Oil Co. (he has since sold his interest in it), later bought control of American President Lines and San Francisco's Natomas Co., which dredges...
...assistant curatorship; and last week Oxford University's Balliol College-the politicians' prep that produced Herbert Asquith, Harold Macmillan, Tory Leader Ted Heath, Defense Minister Denis Healey, and such other luminaries as Arnold Toynbee, Julian Huxley, Graham Greene and King Olaf of Norway-invited the Virginia-born Brahmin to lecture on American politics during the fall Michaelmas term. He is, in short, the alter ego of Pennsylvania's Hugh Scott, a former Republican national committee chairman (1948-49) and one of the canniest, guttiest infighters on either side of the Senate aisle...
...West Virginia-born "Pete" McClanahan, 33, graduated from the Cincinnati Art Academy, did displays for the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan before beginning light constructions in 1964. His classically simple Cloverleaf employs relatively elementary wiring and hidden fluorescent tubes. McClanahan believes that "the promise of light is incredible to contemplate, but it may be disastrous for some at first, until the use of the medium is mastered, as classic Oriental drawing must be mastered, by constant training...
Another in the same mold is Jay Worrall, 23, a Virginia-born physics grad from Earlham College who marched on London's Trafalgar Square with Folk Singer Joan Baez in a 1965 antiwar demonstration. Last week Worrall, in striped shirt and sweat-stained Levi's, was humming a different tune as he sweated in the dust of Phu Cuong, twelve miles northwest of Saigon, building homes for Vietnamese refugees. An adept at the ancient art of cumshaw and cajolery, Worrall overcomes the perennial shortages of materials by canvassing battlefields in a borrowed "deuce-and-a-half...
Sullivan, 44, a strapping (6 ft. 5 in.) West Virginia-born Baptist minister, discovered the complexity of what he calls the '?Q.N." (for Qualified Negro) problem in the early '60s. After opening hundreds of jobs through a quiet, three-year consumers' boycott (in Sullivan's euphemism, a "selective-buying campaign") that never used a picket or a marcher, he discovered to his chagrin that he could not find enough skilled Negroes to fill the jobs. Realizing that "integration without preparation is frustration"-now one of his favorite slogans-he decided to set up his own training...