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...merit basis, boosted salaries 65%. Though Trinity's professors were cool to his businesslike, public-relations approach, those outside the college were not. Within four years, Funston joined the boards of directors of seven companies: General Foods, B. F. Goodrich, Connecticut General Life Insurance, Owen-Corning Fiberglas, Hartford Steam Boiler, Aetna Insurance, First National Bank. On each, Funston, as Weinberg says, "was a good director-independent and willing to do the homework...
...much as 500 feet without halting; his visitors were many. He talked to visitors about his heart attack. For the first few days, under sedation, he had felt completely spent, not caring what happened next. He had felt his own pulse and found it laboring like a weary steam locomotive: "Chug . . . Chug, Chug, Chug . . . Chuuug." Now the rhythm was calm and strong and regular. That was a good sign, and there were many more...
...political scene is thickly populated by men who rose from one-mule farms, little houses beside the tracks, and fruit-and-vegetable markets along the main highways just outside of town. But few have struggled up to the political heights from a 190-ft. steam yacht, a 100-room house on a 20,000-acre estate, and a fortune of $100 million. New York's William Averell Harriman is one politician who has overcome such handicaps to become the most important governor in the U.S. and to be mentioned frequently, if not yet very ponderably, as a candidate...
Reider just lapped up the course, much as he did against Dartmouth last week. But this time there was no Doug Brew to knock him out of the winning position in the last hundred yards. When the speedy dark-haired little sophomore decided to put on the steam there was no one to stop him; he just ran away...
...performed such operations nearly 300 times. In the last 100 operations, he has had only six fatalities, all of them, he claims, from the normal deterioration of badly diseased hearts rather than from the operation itself. The principal purpose of the operation, says Beck, is to "take the steam out of successive attacks," which occur in 50% to 80% of coronary cases, with the chances of survival steadily decreasing. Said he to reporters: "Coronary surgery can't cure, but it ... prolongs the patient's life and makes him more comfortable. Nine of ten patients who receive the operation...