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...Forces, Socialite-Industrialist W. Stuart Symington, who left the presidency of St. Louis' Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co., became Surplus Property Administrator, then a top-notch Assistant Secretary of War for Air, the aggressive, Yale-trained son-in-law of New York's defense-conscious Representative James W. Wadsworth...
...single military commander. The man: Navy Secretary James Forrestal. The best bets to fill two of the new subordinate secretaryships: for Air, Yaleman W. Stuart Symington, now Assistant Secretary of War for Air, socialite, industrialist and son-in-law of New York's military-wise Congressman James W. Wadsworth; for Navy, handsome Under Secretary John L. Sullivan, New Hampshire lawyer and faithful Democrat, who got his Washington start in the Bureau of Internal Revenue...
...dive out the window, however. Last spring five Harvard men clad in checkered shorts and examination blue books jumped off the John Weeks Memorial Bridge. They were arrested for disturbing the peace. No Collegian, since Henry Wadsworth Longfellow meditated aqueous suicide from the same point as a professor of Modern Languages here in the 1860's, had ever considered river bathing...
James Welcott Wadsworth, former Senator and Congressman from New York. Doctor of Laws. Citation: "Senator and Congressman for a quarter of a century, independent and forceful representative of the voters of New York...
Professor Jean-Joseph Seznec has been appointed to the Smith Professorship of the French and Spanish Languages, held in the past by George Ticknor, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell and J. D. M. Ford...