Word: jr
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Counsel Clark Clifford polished up the State of the Union message. Across the street, in the rococo old building that once housed the State Department, Economic Adviser Leon Keyserling scribbled on stacks of yellow foolscap, drafting the President's economic report. Down another hall, Budget Director Frank Pace Jr. roughed out paragraphs and charts for a draft of next year's budget...
James Selden Lay Jr., 38-year...
Unfortunately, none of the essays told Roger Babson how to make an anti-gravity screen. First Prizewinner David T. Wittry of the University of Wisconsin ($1,000) described historical attempts, all failures. Second Prizewinner C. Peter Johnson Jr. of Harvard ($500) dived into unproductive mathematics. Third Prizewinner: John C. Cook of Pennsylvania State College ($250). But Babson is not downhearted. He remembers the last time he talked with Thomas Alva Edison, who died in 1931. Said Edison: "Babson, remember you don't know nothin' about nothin'. You've got to find something that insulates from gravity...