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...Francis White, 60, Baltimore businessman (chemicals), to be Ambassador to Mexico. Yaleman White returns to the Foreign Service after a lapse of 20 years: he first entered the State Department in 1915, held posts in China, the Middle East, Latin America, Spain and Czechoslovakia, rose to Assistant Secretary of State in the Coolidge and Hoover Administrations. After leaving diplomacy in 1933, he became vice president, then president of the nonprofit Foreign Bondholders' Protective Council...
THRUSTON BALLARD MORTON, 45, to be an Assistant Secretary of State. Tall, husky (6 ft. 2 in., 184 Ibs.), and a youthful-looking hustler, Morton is a seventh-generation Kentuckian from Louisville, a Yaleman (class of '29), and formerly head of his family's flour mill firm, Ballard & Ballard, which was bought out by Pillsbury Mills in 1951. In World War II he served with the Navy, a lieutenant commander on minesweepers and destroyers in the Pacific. He has had three postwar terms as a Republican Congressman, is an outspoken internationalist, led the pro-Eisenhower forces in Kentucky...
...After two years of Oberlin, World War I took Thornton into a coast-defense unit ("I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal"). But by that time he was a Yaleman after all. Thornton wrote for the Lit, joined the Elizabethan Club, quoted Goethe with Sophomore Robert Hutchins. Thornton's room became a salon, where he would read his plays aloud or hold forth on the gloomy beauties of George Gissing. Professor William Lyon Phelps exclaimed: "I believe he is a genius." Mr. Wilder demurred: "Oh, tut-tut-tut, Billy, you're puffing...
Nominee Bush, 57, is a handsome, hearty Yaleman (class of '17), a partner (along with Averell Harriman) in Brown Brothers, Harriman & Co., a director of the Columbia Broadcasting System and the Prudential Insurance Co., a fellow (along with Dean Acheson and Robert Taft) of the Yale Corporation. He is a crack golfer (shot a 66 last year), an enthusiastic glee clubber. He served as the party's finance chairman, 1947-50, and put on a razzle-dazzle show against razzle-dazzle Benton in the 1950 Senatorial campaign, which Bush lost by a narrow 1,102-vote margin...
...every Yaleman knows, Yale is more than a great university; it is also a school for success. Last week in Harper's Magazine. Novelist John Hersey (Yale '36) offered some lively proof: the 830 members of his own class, 15 years...