Word: editor
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...adequate to any situation." The 1925 high school yearbook records that 16-year-old Dean ("Rusty") Rusk was president of the senior class, colonel of the school R.O.T.C. regiment, president of the Hi-Y Club, a member of the honor society, the debating council and the track squad, associate editor of the school newspaper-and editor of the yearbook. It did not record that he had started up a class in Greek along...
...least known of Kennedy's Cabinet choices. Ed Day, 46, is a light-haired, witty insurance lawyer and a side ring operator in the three-ring circus that is California Democratic politics. Born in Jacksonville. Ill., Ed Day was brilliant enough as a law student to become editor of the Harvard Law Review (1936-37). After graduation, he went to work in one of Chicago's biggest, best law firms (Sidley, Austin, Burgess & Harper), married Mary Louise Burgess, the boss's daughter. At work he became fast friends with a partner in the firm named Adlai Stevenson...
...peak strength in World War II. By Jane's estimate, the Russians have six nuclear-powered subs, ten guided-missile types, more than 425 other submarines ranging from large ocean-going types down to seagoing patrol subs, medium-range subs and former German U-boats. In a foreword Editor Raymond Blackman observed that in "some quarters," it is still said that Russia's nuclear-powered submarines are not yet operational, but "this ostrich-like attitude can hardly be reconciled with the success which attended the building and operation of the Soviet nuclear-powered icebreaker Lenin...
...Song. Set up by Premier John Diefenbaker three months ago, the Royal Commission on Publications is headed by the Ottawa Journal's president and editor, Michael Grattan O'Leary, also includes John George Johnston, a Toronto public-relations man, and Montrealer Claude Beaubien, vice president of the Aluminum Co. of Canada Ltd. The committee's assignment: to prepare, for parliamentary action, recommendations that, "while consistent with the maintenance of the freedom of the press, would contribute to the further development of a Canadian identity through a genuinely Canadian periodical press...
Maritally, U.S. Society abandoned the "double standard" only to adopt the quadruple and sextuple standards. Gentleman Editor Frank (Vanity Fair) Crowninshield epigrammatized the situation: "Married men make very poor husbands." By their second or third generations, most U.S. moneyed clans are marked for either 1) distinction, 2) extinction. Those that survive with distinction, e.g., Lowells, Rockefellers. Guggenheims, treat their money as a public trust and adopt the ethic of responsibility laid down by an early Du Pont: "No privilege exists that is not inseparably bound to a duty." Other socialite families go the way so graphically described by the Philadelphia...