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Director of the far-flung diplomatic machinery which tackles this job is a tough aristocrat of 58-a tall, big-boned man with a high forehead, clear, slightly myopic eyes, a firm chin, a sensitive mouth. He was christened Edward Frederick Lindley Wood. Now he is Viscount Halifax, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of His Majesty's Government for the past 23 momentous months of world affairs...
Instead of taking it on the chin for four years without protest, a student committee last spring dashed out its own conception of what a college education should stand for. Its report is now being considered by the Faculty and may possibly lead to a criticism and re-evaluation of Harvard's curriculum...
...oyster and he held the shucking knife. By the turn of the century he was a crack western public utility man, and by the time he moved into Manhattan at 35 to set up Henry L. Doherty & Co. (utilities investments) he was a millionaire and had feathered his chin with a goatish beard to impress Wall Streeters. The beard failed to work, and Mr. Doherty had to borrow money in Europe until Wall Street got to know him better...
...first by that general nobility of character and godlike quality that shines from Mr. Garner's countenance. The eyes are large, candid and idealistic; the mouth generous and honest to a fault; the nose shows strength and yet fair-mindedness; the brow is high and intellectual; the chin full of courage and loyalty to his leaders. All in all, this face of Mr. Garner's symbolizes all the nobility of the American eagle, that gentle unpredatory bird. I think it is most fitting that after 1940 that countenance should stand forth to the world as representative...
...Garners eat dinner at noon in Uvalde-Mr. Garner snapped his chopper-chin up & down on 44 words...