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Hard work, slick financing, fast talk, and a driving energy that permitted only parlor-car relaxation on his cross-country travels raised Chateaubriand from a law professorship at Recife to the most comprehensive press lordship south of San Simeon. He owns 28 newspapers, 16 radio stations, five magazines and a press service. The most spectacular of his promotions, a campaign for Brazil's amateur Aero Clubs, paid off when Aero Clubs' Sunday fliers started pouring into the war-activated Brazilian Air Force...
Lamont has served as an overseer of Harvard College from 1912 to 1918 and from 1919 to 1925, and has been president of the Harvard Club of New York. On the occasion of the Tercentenary Celebration, he established a fund of $500,000 to set up the Lamont University Professorship, now held by Sumner H. Slichter...
...Association of American Medical Colleges were watching it closely. The trouble began with the latest move of the new president of L.S.U. Bluff, 6-ft., bellowing William ("The Conqueror") Hatcher began his presidency by firing a dean who had once opposed Hatcher's promotion to a full professorship...
...university's 100-man board of trustees elected him president, but Frank Graham, happy in his professorship, said no. How he changed his mind is a story that is as unworldly as most stories about Graham: he met a marine buddy on the street who challenged him into accepting by appealing to the old Corps tie: "Frank, marines don't run away from tough going...
Appointed to an assistant professorship in History in 1908, Professor Ferguson attained the full professorship in 1912, after the publication in the previous year of his masterpiece, "Hellenistic Athens." He won the McLean chair, which he has held until this time, in 1929, and for many years he was chairman of the History Department...