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...Miles Away. The men close to Taft apparently did not sense the voter resistance. When the tour ended, F. E. ("Ted") Johnston, who had headed the Senator's efficient, professional New Hampshire organization, dropped the carefully cultivated underdog role and made a prediction: Taft would win the preferential primary by 5,000 votes, and six of the 14 delegates...
They are Joel E. Gordon '52, of Berkeley, California, and Lowell House; Garth C. Grissom 1L, of Syracuse, Kansas; Calvin S. Hamilton 3G, of Cambridge; Ernest B. Johnston '52, of Selma, Alabama, and Kirkland House; and Gareth Matthews 1G. of Franklin, Indiana...
...onions-washed down with beer-before turning in at night. He once got himself punished for letting off fireworks in the head. A pale, slim sublieutenant, sometimes doubled up with pains diagnosed much later as an ulcer, he saw action in the Battle of Jutland, where, as "Mr. Johnston," he was second-in-command of "A" turret aboard H.M.S. Collingwood. "The King," remembered Turret Commander W.E.C. Tait years later, "made cocoa as usual for me and the gun crew during the battle...
...hard at work at the College of Medical Evangelists in Loma Linda, Calif, sorting out a mass of puzzling data and trying to find answers. In his laboratory, four assistants were slicing little samples from the flesh, liver, intestines and gonads of a batch of frozen fish from Johnston Island. After grinding and centrifuging, a cubic centimeter of fluid from each sample was injected into the belly of a mouse. If the sample was weakly poisonous, the mouse got sick but lived; a moderately poisonous sample should kill it within 36 hours, and a strongly poisonous sample within an hour...
Previously, Johnston was executive secretary of the Yale Alumni Board. He still retains his old position, however, and will share the job's duties with his new post with the crew...