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Jobs and Politics. The son of a Nuneaton (Warwickshire) parish priest, Geoffrey Fisher won honors at Oxford by working hard. Ever since, he has had an easy time of it, falling into one job after another. The first was a three-year stretch as an assistant master at Marlborough, his old school. Then he started in William Temple's footsteps: he succeeded him as headmaster of Repton School. Finally, with an agility that left many a churchman popeyed, Fisher in 1932 stepped directly from 21 years of schoolmastering into the Bishopric of Chester...
...school's purpose is to turn ignorant but promising country boys into efficient up-to-date dirt farmers who will take the gospel of modern agriculture back to their native villages. At the end of the three-year course, the students get no degree, but they know how to farm. Says cagey Sam Zemurray, head of United Fruit: "If we give them degrees, they'll go into politics. We want them to stay on the farm...
...regular thud of military boots on the Avenida General Paz, the rumble of moving caissons. From the Campo Mayo, Army headquarters, dashed truckloads of soldiers with machine guns. They converged on Casa Rosada, Argentina's Government House. In less than half a day the corrupt, unpopular, three-year administration of President Ramon S. Castillo was ended...
Henry Morgenthau Jr., who has been Secretary of the Treasury longer (eleven years) than all but two of his predecessors,* admitted that he sold Term IV short. When the three-year lease on his Washington quarters expires next February, the Secretary will be houseless (the owner plans to move back in).† Asked if he had really believed that the President would not run for a fourth term, the Secretary said: "I didn't-not three years...
Star of the Melville eleven so far this season has been Don Zoeller, three-year starter on the University of Kentucky, who ran or passed for every one of the Raiders' 45 points last Saturday. Outstanding on the forward wall is Lennie. Thom, left tackle, who was All-American at Ohio State...