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Whacked Children. The angularity of mind and body was hers by inheritance. She was born 42 years ago in Hartford, Conn., the second of the six children of Katharine Houghton and Dr. Thomas Norval Hepburn, a noted urologist and surgeon. Her father, a transplanted Virginian, was so moved by Brieux's crusading play about syphilis, Damaged Goods (and by the preface written to it by Bernard Shaw), that he risked ostracism by his campaign to bring the facts about venereal disease into the open. With Harvard's Dr. Charles Eliot, he founded the American Social Hygiene Association. Kate...
...just two years ago, in similar weather, that the first brigade of Marines arrived at Pusan to help hold the allied beachhead. Last spring the division, now commanded by Major General John T. Selden, was due to go into reserve. But Selden, a tall, sharp-eyed Virginian who enlisted as a Marine private in 1915, asked General Van Fleet to keep the division fighting. Van Fleet agreed, and assigned the Marines to the Panmunjom sector, astride the invasion route from Pyongyang to Seoul...
...became superintendent of the Erie's rough, tough ore-and steel-hauling Youngstown district. He was tough enough to shoot up, in eleven years, to eastern district manager. But he was also sentimental; in 1938, when he got an offer as general manager of the Virginian, he wept on telling a close friend: "I'm leaving the Erie...
White didn't stay melancholy long. He ran the Virginian so well that he caught the eye of Manhattan bankers trying to unscramble the unwieldy Lackawanna Railroad, which is 8% owned by the New York Central. In 1941, Bill White went in as president to help them. He tackled the Lackawanna's finances with what he calls the "cut & fit method," consolidated its 18 separate companies into one, and by so doing trimmed its federal income-tax liability by 20%. With the help of World War II's boom, White piled up $32 million in profits...
Hallanan has not always been a trusted Taft lieutenant. Just after Taft was defeated by Dewey in the 1948 convention, one of Taft's most important and consistent supporters gave this description of the West Virginian: "Hallanan was a double-crosser. He double-crossed Frank Knox in 1936. He double-crossed us in 1940. We didn't trust him, but he had a hell of a row with Dewey in 1940, and we thought that would hold him. This time he went through to the last day, and then, when the going got tough, he went over...