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Convinced that Yalemen have won their Ys in art col lecting as well as most other walks of life, Book Publisher Thomas R. Coward ('19), president of Coward-McCann, Inc., set out to prove his point with an alumni loan show at the 124-year-old Yale University Art Gallery. The result, on view this week in New Haven, is a choice selection of 250 oils, watercolors and drawings from the private collections of Yale alumni, including such well-heeled art fanciers as New York Governor W. Averell Harriman ('13), U.S. Steel Corp.'s for mer Board...
...life that plump, periwigged and pecunious Elihu Yale had lived by the time (1718) he dispatched a gift of ?562 worth of goods to the struggling colonial college in New Haven, Conn, was not by any means all light and verity. Yalemen have long suspected this about the onetime Governor of Madras. But being pretty true blue themselves, most have followed the advice of Historian Robert Dudley French, '10, that "loyal sons of Yale . . . not question too closely the sources of this nabob's wealth." Last week, from Warwick, England came word that someone was not only questioning...
...military. He had gone to grade school in England, graduated from Groton one form ahead of his archenemy-to-be, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. After Yale ('03) he moved into Chicago's swank Union Club and began law courses at Northwestern ("They had a lot of Yalemen on the Supreme Court about then, and we got the idea that it was the thing...
Talking to his fellow Yalemen about problems that go with patronage last week, Taft cracked: "I think sometimes I'd rather go back to the minority." But he does not think he is going back. He told reporters that he expects Dwight Eisenhower to run and be re-elected in 1956. As for his own ambitions, he wants to go on being an effective Mr. Majority...
...young people really like? Are they only a "silent generation," looking for nothing more than security?. Last week, in a special book published by the Yale Daily News in honor of its 75th anniversary (Seventy-Five: A Study of A Generation in Transition; $4), a distinguished group of greying Yalemen and professors, only yesterday members of the "lost generation," offered some answers...