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Margin Time. The family lived in a Bronx apartment house, where "we were often the only Gentiles." Frank went to De Witt Clinton High School on the 12:30-to-5 p.m. shift, did no work, barely got through, and had no intention of going to college. He was drafted into the Army in 1943, where he noticed that "the people who had the best jobs were people who had been to college." This sparked in him a sudden passion for higher learning. After the war, he applied to 40 colleges, asking them to gamble on him despite his high...
Away from the Sea. Steadily expanded since World War I by the Army Engineers, the inland waterways today link together an amazing amount of the nation (see chart). In the East they include De Witt Clinton's historic New York State Barge Canal, the Hudson River, and the sheltered coastal route that amateur sailors take south to Florida. In the U.S. heartland, the Mississippi and its tributaries afford unbroken passage from Pittsburgh west to Council Bluffs, Iowa, and from Minneapolis south to the Gulf. In the Far West, locks built into the McNary and Bonneville dams allow riverboats...
...LYNDON DE WITT Teheran, Iran...
Chris Ohiri of Harvard leads the league in scoring with six goals. Yale's Charley Frank is second with three. Dartmouth's Bebris, Penn's Witt, Cornell's Cohen, Columbia's Anyaawu, Brown's Nielson, and Yale's Schaefer each have...
Faubus' success was due both to his political genius and to the vast economic resources of W. R. ("Witt") Stevens, one of the all-time great back-room boys, and Arkansas' political eminence grise. Both Faubus and Stevens are masters of the possible--Faubus slipped only once, on the issue that made his national reputation, and Stevens has never slipped (not even in the bath-tub, they say). Like Faubus, Stevens rose to power from backwoods obscurity, and the two men were influential in making each other's fortunes. Stevens has financed Faubus' career, while Faubus has consistently done...