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...tidy office in Appleton, Wis. one autumn day, a lean, brown-haired man sat down at his desk to face an irksome task. Nathan Marsh Pusey was writing his biography for the 25th reunion of his class at Harvard, and it was with much of the agony that H. M. Pulham Esq. went through ("a good deal like something on a tombstone . . . never did like writing . . .") that he dutifully recorded his life. He noted that he had three chil dren, was president of Appleton's Lawrence College (enrollment: 800), that "liberal education is my chief concern...
...Harvard last spring, he put on a scarlet waistcoat and a red, white & blue tie as just one more old grad, 25 years out. But whenever he opened his mouth, reporters jotted down notes, and wherever he went, flashbulbs flared. Nathan Pusey had just been named the 24th president of Harvard University. He was an apparent nobody, plucked out of nowhere, who had never even written a book. His classmates managed to work him into their rhymes: "Nate" was "great," and so, of course, was " '28." But the rest of Harvard had another chant...
Other officers chosen are: Robert E. Herzstein and Myles V. Whalen, note editors; John M. Steadman, treasurer; David L. Ratner and Helmut F. Furth, article editors; Nathan Newbury III and George G. Gillespie III, case editors; Henry J. Steiner, developments editor; and Robert H. Cole, book review editor...
Family: While on duty at Schofield Barracks in 1932, married Maude Mc-Keever, daughter of a sugar broker on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Children: Richard, an Air Force Reserve pilot; Nathan Alexander, a promising pianist; Olivia, now at Holton-Arms Junior College in Washington. General Twining's elder brother, Robert, Annapolis, 1916, is a retired captain; his younger brother, Major General Merrill Twining, Annapolis, 1923, is deputy chief of staff of U.S. Marine Corps...
Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow interviews Lily Pons and Harvard's President Nathan Pusey...