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Cunning Men. It took Dewey three ballots to regain the nomination in 1948 over Ohio's Robert Taft, Minnesota's Harold Stassen, Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg and California's Earl Warren-and the nomination was considered tantamount to election. The nation seemed weary of the frenetic days of New Deal innovation and the burdens of war and postwar readjustment. Harry Truman was a feeble contrast to the fallen F.D.R., and the Democratic Party was split (Strom Thurmond had deserted to run as a right-wing candidate, Henry Wallace as a left-wing challenger). Voters yearned...
...family, she made her stage debut when her mother carried her onstage at the age of ten weeks. At four she was a trouper; at seven she was in movies. "Whatever I missed as a child," she once said, "I didn't mind missing." At 14 Bebe became Harold Lloyd's leading lady and at 18 achieved stardom after she signed with Cecil B. De Mille, later playing opposite Wallace Reid and Rudolph Valentino. She married Actor Ben Lyon, moved to London in 1936 and when war broke out, volunteered her services to the BBC. The first woman...
Henry's lack of character has been concealed by layers of that splendid raiment, money. But, alas, Henry has dipped into principal twice too often, and now all he has left is his red Ferrari and his gentleman's gentleman Harold (George Rose). There are but two effortless avenues to wealth. One is inheritance-and Henry has used that up. The other avenue is marriage-followed by inheritance...
Goheen, Princeton '40, succeeded Harold W. Dodds as the university's 16th president in 1957. Then 37, Goheen was assistant professor of Classics and had been a member of that faculty since 1948 when he received his doctorate at Princeton. Goheen announced at the beginning of his presidency that he would retain the office for 10 to 15 years...
Established by Harold T. White, Jr. '37, the prize is given to a non-tenured instructor or teaching fellow for outstanding teaching in the introductory courses in Physics or Applied Physics. A joint student-faculty committee selected Bamberg for the prize and presented it to him at a luncheon given in his honor at the Faculty Club last Thursday...