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Student donors yesterday set a new high for a single day's contribution in the annual PBH blood drive. The 214 pints received, which topped Wednesday's record of 178, is the highest number ever collected in a single day in "any comparable drive," according to N. Conant Webb, Jr. '49, president of Phillips Brooks House...
...days previously, Attlee had done his best to insure fair sailing by shifting his cabinet around to strengthen its right wing. The cabinet changes included: Webb, 45, a journalist who distinguished himself in the last Parliament by doing his best to ease the squeeze on Britain's hard-pressed middle classes. The new Food Minister, a good friend of Herbert Morrison, took office with a promising statement. Said he: "I will try not to use the word 'calories' at any time, but just talk about food." <| Another right...
...nobody cried "nepotism" when Edgar Eugene Rand, 44, the founder's eldest son, moved up to the company's presidency. Like his father, husky Ed Rand was a poker-playing, hardheaded businessman who had never been coddled. He was sent to public school, later prepped at the Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tenn., where the boys took their baths in wash-tubs, got their water from a well...
From then to the outbreak of World War I, young Socialist Attlee worked with Sidney and Beatrice Webb for the repeal of the Poor Law, lectured at Ruskin College, Oxford, on trade unionism and trade-union law, and later on social science at the London School of Economics. He became a member of the Fabian Society and of the Independent Labor Party...
Cinemactor Clifton ("Mr. Belvedere") Webb, 56, a confirmed bachelor, reflected gloomily on his trials & tribulations during the shooting of Cheaper by the Dozen, in which he plays the father of twelve children: "I was a strict disciplinarian. I have a glare that makes children most obedient. I may not be a family man, but I am an actor. I hope the mothers of America will soon show me some mercy. Ever since I dumped the bowl of oatmeal on Roddy McCaskill in Sitting Pretty, I have been called on for assistance in rearing the bubble-gum youth of this nation...