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...West Virginia University's Wilson Porter Shortridge, 71, professor of American history and since 1929 dean of the college of arts and sciences. His new assignment: Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash...
...British and Continental snobs." As Mr. Schlamm sees it, this contempt is a partial result of our Marshall Plan, to which the Europeans attributed "hideous and unspeakably sinister motives." Continental newspapers are unable to present the facts about American life because, in Schlamm's opinion, "the womens clubs of Walla Walla know considerably more about Europe than leading European editors know about the United States...
...neighboring after the beds are made, the baby is changed and the breakfast dishes washed. In the Pacific Northwest, youths make their first date with a new girl an invitation for coffee. "Gives the guy a chance to case the babe, cheap," explained a young blade from Walla Walla...
...Lord of Creation." Matt Ridgway began his Army career informally some 45 years ago, when he used to shout a sentry's challenge to visitors from the porch of the family quarters at Fort Walla Walla, Wash. His father, Colonel Thomas Ridgway, was a Regular Army artilleryman who had served with an international contingent in China during the Boxer Rebellion...
Short, greying Ralph Cordiner worked his way through Whitman College selling electric appliances in his home town of Walla Walla, Wash. He joined a G.E. Pacific Coast subsidiary in 1922 and worked his way up. In 1938, he succeeded Charlie Wilson as manager of G.E.'s Appliance and Merchandise Department, was elected vice president in February 1945 after serving as vice chairman of the War Production Board. Since then, Cordiner has been Charlie Wilson's right-hand man in planning and carrying out G.E.'s postwar expansion...