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...graduated from high school at 18, third in his class, president of the student council, a two-letterman in basketball. He entered the University of Pittsburgh in 1959, when Pitt inaugurated its year-round trimester calendar. Last week, five years after Hall left high school, Pitt Chancellor Edward H. Litchfield draped the academic robes of a Ph.D. in mathematics around his husky young shoulders...
Awarding Hall his high-speed degree, Chancellor Litchfield praised the trimester system for making it all possible. "It places another highly skilled man in the service of the nation at an age when his most creative years are ahead of him," he said. It sure did. As a freshman, Hall had registered in the R.O.T.C. The day after he became a Ph.D., 2nd Lieut. Hall left for the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland...
Tennis buffs have dreamed for years of a grass court where the rain never falls and the sun never blinds and the wind never blows. It is more than a dream in Litchfield, Conn., where the Forman School recently unveiled its synthetic solution to the problem-a tennis court surfaced with grass made of vinyl and sheltered by a nylon tent...
...chief executives can claim careers as colorful as that of Lawrence Litchfield Jr., 63, the chairman of first-ranking Aluminum Co. of America. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and Harvard ('23), he tramped the jungles of Latin America and Africa as a geologist in search of bauxite, learned to speak five languages and eat such delicacies as parrot soup, struck oil for Alcoa in Texas and along the way found time to be an athlete (rowing), amateur artist, rider and hunter. Since he moved up from president last April, he has spent most of his time "thinking...
...protégé is Goodyear's present chairman, Edwin Joel Thomas, 64, who came to Goodyear as a part-time clerk when he was 17 and began taking over active management under Litchfield 19 years ago. A solidly built, balding man with unfailing memory and considerable charm, Thomas is responsible for Goodyear's modern diversified look, runs the company in tandem with President Russell De Young, 54, an up-from-the-ranks production expert who is heir apparent. "It was like getting the first olive out of the bottle," says Thomas. "Doing research on tires, we found...