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After months of infighting, the king makers of both parties finally settled last week on their candidates for Governor. For the Democrats, it was Socialite Yaleman Richardson Dilworth, 63, who resigned after six years as mayor of Philadelphia to seek the nomination. The Republicans picked Socialite Yaleman William W. Scranton, 44, a first-term U.S. Representative who defeated an incumbent Democratic Congressman in 1960 while Jack Kennedy carried the state...
...expected," wrote Sumner, "and that is a frightful effusion of blood in revolution and war during the century now opening.'' In 1914 the Review published a trenchant appraisal of "The Powers of the President'' by an acknowledged authority on the subject: former U.S. President (and Yaleman) William Howard Taft...
Into this sham-fest the playwright throws a rich young Yaleman, full of boola, moola and ideals, trying to pursue an honest artistic career. Along the way, he is buffeted by a whipcracking female magazine publisher (Lahr), a Hollywood producer named Harry Hubris (Lahr), and his own father, Milo Leotard Allardyce DuPlessis Weatherwax (also Lahr), a wild Park Avenue lecher. When his son admits a literary interest in the exotic sins suggested by Lolita and the works of Oscar Wilde, Weatherwax bellows encouragingly: "That's the stuff to cut your eyeteeth on. You have to learn to crawl before...
...hearings were the first real tip-off to the temper of Chairman Cary, 50, a Yaleman ('31) and onetime (1938-40) SEC counsel, who was plucked from his job as a Columbia law professor by President Kennedy last February to head the SEC. A Phi Beta Kappa with a staunch New Deal background, Cary served with the OSS in Rumania and Yugoslavia during World War II. No stranger to the Wall Street whirl, he worked part time during his Columbia days as special counsel to a Wall Street law firm...
...Yaleman Cavanagh traces his priestly vocation to his World War II experiences as an artilleryman in Europe. Unmarried, he resigned from the Connecticut legislature to enlist in the Army, won three decorations for valor, and was mustered out a lieutenant colonel. "I don't like to be dramatic about it," he says, "but everything just seemed ephemeral after the war." The death of both parents in 1957 seemed to him "a signal from the Lord," and he decided to dedicate the remainder of his life to his church. "My College." Once the resolution was made, Cavanagh had little trouble...