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1. Robert Abercrombie Lovett
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._LovettRobert Abercrombie Lovett (b. 1895) was the fourth United States Secretary of Defense, serving in the cabinet of President Harry S. Truman from 1951 to 1953 and in this capacity, directed the Korean War.
The son of R.S. Lovett, president and chairman of the board of the Union Pacific Railroad, Lovett was born in Huntsville, Texas. He was a member of the Skull and Bones society at Yale University. He married debutante Adele Quartley Brown (of the "Brown Bros" Browns).
Lovett began his business career as a clerk at the National Bank of Commerce in New York and later moved to Brown Brothers Harriman and Company, where he eventually became a partner...
2. Tennessee Williams
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_WilliamsTennessee Lanier Williams (born March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), né Thomas Lanier Williams, was an American playwright who received many of the top theatrical awards for his works of drama. He moved to New Orleans in 1939 and changed his name to "Tennessee", the state of his father's birth.
He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948 and for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1955. In addition, The Glass Menagerie (1945) and The Night of the Iguana (1961) received New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards. His 1952 play The Rose Tattoo received the Tony Award for best play.
3. Charles Alden Black
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Alden_BlackCharles Alden Black (March 6, 1919 – August 4, 2005) was a California businessman known for aquaculture and oceanography, and for his marriage to Shirley Temple Black.
Black was born in Oakland,California...graduated from Hotchkiss School in Connecticut and Stanford University (class of 1940). His father, James Byers Black was President of Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Black attended Harvard Business School for one year, and left to enter the Navy in 1941.
He served in the Navy during World War II, as an intelligence officer in the South Pacific, and again during the Korean War as an intelligence officer. After WWII he received his MBA from Stanford in 1946, and then in the late 1950s he lived in Hawaii and worked as an executive for Castle & Cooke and Dole Pineapple companies...He co-founded a hatchery for oysters and abalone and later created Mardela Corp., a fishery and hatchery company headquartered in Burlingame, California, which conducted ventures such as catfish and salmon farming. He later served as a consultant on maritime issues and served as a regent for Santa Clara University.
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