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After the war Whitney managed the John Hay Whitney Foundation and his $10 million investment firm (sample risks: uranium in New Mexico, frozen orange juice in Florida), which has doubled its worth since 1946. More and more he interested and involved himself in politics. He was for Ike before Chicago...
Educators have long warned that TV has been turning the old art of reading into a closed book for the latest generation. But last week Emerson Greenaway, director of Philadelphia's Free Library, credited TV with, of all things, an improvement in reading standards. Said Greenaway: "Everybody can see...
An amiable six-footer, he doubled the number of teachers with bachelor's degrees, raised the teacher's average yearly salary from $1,016 to $4,006, upped the value of his plant from $3,800,000 to $17,600,000. In 1953 he was elected president of...
V-12 and ASTP members, however, doubled as undergraduate students besides being in the military. They received their degrees and commisions at the same time, and were kept quite busy in the process. A typical day in Eliot House began at 0600 (6 a.m.) with a two mile run and...
"In our generation," says Pusey, "the difficulties of financing higher education have increased substantially. Twenty-five years ago income from that part of Harvard's endowment fund which belongs to the college met 47% of the cost of operating the college. Last year this income met less than 27...