Word: yaleman
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...Wooster street taproom of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Moriarty was dependent upon the same source for its income, but shone out above all other New Haven alehouses in disdaining the common American saloon trapping in favor of a quiet European charm and hospitality. A Yaleman of this era wrote, "Frank's offered a hospitality and possessed a dignity never acquired by any one of the various saloons in the district...
Moriarty's was soon the Yaleman's second home. It picked up the na,me of "the quiet House," and class after class of Eli undergraduates developed a great fondness for the short, stumpy imitation English oak door, the sort, stumpy bar, the short, stumpy proprietor, and his short stumpy wife...
...late Railroad Builder E. H. Harriman, younger brother of Presidential Adviser Averell Harriman, was named president of the American Red Cross, succeeding General George C. Marshall, who will resign Dec. 1. A partner in his family's Wall Street banking firm (Brown Bros., Harriman), Yaleman ('17) Harriman is chairman of the board of Union Pacific Railroad, directed the 1949 Red Cross fund campaign...
Last week Yaleman Hobson moved into a job well calculated to suit a carriage-trade taste. He became managing editor of Harper's Bazaar (circ. 340,605), Sanhedrin of the high-fashion world. Hobson replaces Frances MacFadden, who retired after 18 years in the post. As the new M.E., Hobson will be chiefly concerned with Bazaar's non-fashion articles. But he will also read fashion copy and make criticisms from a man's point of view. Explained Editor Carmel Snow: "I think a man is terribly good for woman editors-I don't just mean...
...Ohio University, in the relaxed southern Ohio town of Athens (pop. 9,000), the current saying is: "A Yaleman founded the school, but a Harvardman put it on its feet." The Yaleman was Manasseh Cutler, who helped start the university in 1804 as the nation's first land-grant college. The Harvardman: 54-year-old John Calhoun Baker, Ohio's president since...