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...armed forces. Frugal, remote, humorless, Chen serves plain chow mein at his modest home near Chiang's atop Taipei's Grass Mountain, and criticizes colleagues for giving elaborate parties. One of his four sons is working his way through M.I.T., his two daughters are studying at Georgia Wesleyan. His wife is a devout Christian, who attends Madame Chiang's prayer meetings, but Chen says stiffly that he himself has "no religion...
...journalist was all that big, slow-talking, prematurely grey Jim McConaughy ever wanted to be. Son of James Lukens McConaughy, president of Wesleyan University and Connecticut's Republican Governor from 1946 to 1948, Jim got a job with the Hartford Times while still at Wesleyan, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. In 1938 he came to TIME and asked for a job. The only place open at the time was as a copy boy; he took it. Later he went to Chicago as a correspondent, returned to New York as a writer. In 1944 he traveled to Parris Island...
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...took on job after job, including posts in the Office of Production Management, the Navy, War Manpower Commission, Labor Department, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Hoover Commission. In 1948 Flemming returned to his old school as the first lay president of 117-year-old Ohio Wesleyan. But he was back in Washington as Defense Mobilization director during the Korean war, stayed on under Republican President Dwight Eisenhower until 1957, when he returned to Ohio Wesleyan...
Last week, although reluctant to leave Ohio Wesleyan again, Old Government Pro Flemming nonetheless looked forward to his new assignment. Asked by a reporter if he minded taking over a Cabinet post in an Administration whose time was running out, Arthur Flemming replied quietly: "No. This may be a most important two and a half years for the world...