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Dishes & Stymies. His G.O.P. opponent, also a wealthy amateur in national politics, matched him trick for trick. A partner in the Wall Street firm of Brown Brothers, Harriman, tall, ruggedly handsome Prescott Bush had 15-minute TV spots, five-minute TV spots, and one-minute TV spots. A Yaleman (Skull & Bones), director of more than half a dozen corporations, and a sportsman (as onetime U.S. Golf Association president, he is generally credited with leading the campaign for the abolition of the stymie), Bush felt his problem, too, was to meet the people. He had himself photographed shaking hands with dishwashers...
...first fine shuffle of the New Deal, Writer Malcolm Ross was one of the bright young Ivy Leaguers who went to Washington to take a hand. Yaleman Ross sat to the left of the dealer and played his cards ably. Soon he was publicity chief of the NLRB and a mover & shaker in U.S. labor policy. After a rough ride as chairman of the controversial FEPC, "Mike" Ross quit government in 1946, moved to Florida and went back to writing books...
...Stockholm, Yaleman Jim Fuchs won an international shot-put meet with a heave of 54 ft. 7½ in., returned to the field this week to make his best toss yet, a world-record 58 ft. 9 9/641n...
Last week the corporation made its choice: vigorous, bumper-jawed 43-year-old Yale history Professor Alfred Whitney Griswold. A Yaleman himself (class of '29), Griswold had started out with literary ambitions.* But after a summer stint in a Wall Street brokerage office, he went back to Yale to teach. Since then he has been a witty, popular instructor in the departments of English and history. In 1947 he became one of Yale's youngest full professors, meanwhile turned out a brace of scholarly, readable books (The Far Eastern Policy of the United States, Farming and Democracy...
...foggy last week. Toward noon, Chicago Tribune staffers and WGN engineers gathered expectantly in Room 833 of the Tribune Tower. Outside the window they could see a shiny brass whistle, four feet high, ten inches in diameter, which until recently had graced the West Coast steamship Yale. Now Yaleman Bertie McCormick ('03) had acquired it for a new and loftier mission: to warn Chicagoland of an atomic-bomb raid. Before leaving for an Arizona vacation, the colonel had left orders for a test toot...