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When he entered his first-floor office one night, a University of Mississippi staffman was just in time to see a figure clamber out of the window and dart away into the night. The prowler had stolen nothing, but he had ransacked the desk. What was the man after? The staffman's conclusion: any personal notes or letters containing sentiments in favor of racial integration...
...fulltime executive director, the commission hired Henry Toy Jr., a Du Pont executive who had started a citizens' council on education in Delaware. Toy began with a staff of eight in Manhattan. Though the commission had an advisory board of educators, it insisted that no member or staffman have any professional connection with education, religion or politics. Above all, it was to be a clearinghouse of information for whatever local citizens' groups already existed and an agency to guide and inspire new groups. It refused to champion any one educational line, would not associate itself with any professional...
...salaried staffman, Surgeon Blalock has no private patients, never sees a penny of the fees for his operations: all the money goes to the university. A painstaking administrator, he is also a crackerjack lecturer, wasting no words and never losing his temper. Only in the operating room when, with a heart exposed, life may be in the balance for hours, does Dr. Blalock's gentle voice betray his tension. As soon as possible after his work is done, he relaxes with chain-smoked cigarettes. Weekends, he fishes or plays golf (in the 80s, despite an unsurgeonly waggle...
...KMAG's acting commander. Wright quickly explained the situation. "Fluid but hopeful" was the way he summed it up. Korean officers who entered the room were more pessimistic. Tall, round-faced Colonel Kim Pak II, ex-Japanese army captain, now generally accredited the Korean army's smartest staffman, shook hands with me warmly, but his usual cheerful manner had given way to worried tenseness. "Not very good . . . not very good...
...last week Max Brodsky, a trusted Flaxer staffman, arrived in Panama to help run U.P.W.A.'s membership drive. And there were reports that Communists were buying Panamanian citizenship so as to qualify for civil service jobs on locks and docks. In Washington, a Senate subcommittee headed by Minnesota's Ed Thye got ready to investigate the whole situation...