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...inadvertence was "The March of TIME's" use of the word "henchman," defined by Webster's New International Dictionary as: "A political follower giving active support; especially one whose support is chiefly a matter of personal advantage...
...Webster Hall stood Dartmouth's President Ernest Martin Hopkins to tell his admiring students what has happened to the U. S. in the last two decades: "There has been an obvious retrogression.... In circumstances where loyalty to high idealism was imperative, we as individuals and as a people have compromised with expediency ... and amid the confusion resulting from unrest of the spirit we have sought surcease from concern in new dissipations and in more self-indulgence...
...East Hampton, L. I. Stuyvesant Fish, 14, nephew of Stuyvesant Fish (see above), paddled an inflated rubber mattress out to sea, brought ashore a drowning plumber. Learning from the plumber that his companion was also drowning, young Fish, with a 15-year-old friend and his father, Sydney Webster Fish, rowed out and rescued the clerk of the East Hampton Board of Education...
...however, not the apex of Promoter Clarke's classic pyramid. Its control rests in a small issue of voting stock held by a super holding company called Public Utilities Securities Corp. which in turn is controlled by a super-super holding company. Grand Potentate of them all, called Webster Securities Corp...
...Rosen; J. C. Rowley; Nicholas Satterlee; Peter Scott; R. L. Scott; H. P. Shaw; W. W. Shirk; E. S. Skinner; R. W. Sides, E. A. H. Sims; F. B. Snyder; F. H. Stewart; O. M. Stirling; L. A. Stone; F. W. Tomkins, Jr.; Leicester Warren, Jr.; R. C. Webster; A. T. Wells, Jr.; J. R. Weston; F. L. P. White; G. G. Whitney; V. L. Whitney, Jr.; T. H. Witherby; W. W. Wolbach...