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Lord left the ranks of college teachers even before he got his Ph.D. at Columbia in 1943. After a brief stint with the New York State Historical Association and a tour of duty in the Navy, he moved west to Wisconsin, where he became director of the State Historical Society. There in six years he doubled the society's membership (to more than 3,000), tripled its budget (to more than $300,000), and built it into one of the finest organizations of its kind in the nation. Last week the society was reaching beyond its geographical boundaries...
Oldtime Comedian Buster Keaton gave photographers a chance to catch him in a traditionally morose pose before leaving on the United States for a European business trip. Two pieces of business: the London premiere of Charlie Chaplin's Limelight (see above), in which Keaton appears; a three-week stint with a Paris circus...
...similar deals, Moore has built Continental to its present size in only nine years. After graduating from high school in Jackson, Tenn., he took a job as ticket agent for a midwestern bus line, soon worked his way up to traffic manager. In 1943, after a stint with another bus line, Moore organized Lone Star Coaches, and with a borrowed $2,500,000 bought out Bowen Motor Coaches of Fort Worth, second largest independent in the South. With Lone Star serving most of the Army camps in Texas, business boomed during the war; Moore expanded into Colorado and New Mexico...
...Headquarters told the Shannon Hall Air Force R.O.T.C. office that the need for comptrollers is low, whereas there is an acute shortage of cadet pilots. If present world conditions continue, students who have chosen Flight Operations will be called up for four years, as contrasted with a two-year stint in Comptrollership. The longer period of service in the Flight Operations option was a strong factor when the choice arose last spring...
...from Hartford back to Washington (where he was born and where he served as a Republican Congressman, 1947-1951). Twice this year, the governor has had a chance to run for U.S. Senator; twice he has stifled his hankering and insisted that he must finish his four-year gubernatorial stint...