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...mother a caterer; her business is now operated by one of Jordan's two brothers. Though Jordan never lived in actual poverty, he once observed: "I rode in the back of the bus, I sat upstairs in the theater, I sat upstairs in the courtroom." After earning a bachelor's degree in political science at DePauw University ('57) and a law degree from Howard University ('60), Jordan set out to do his best to end those injustices...
...Georgetown University's commencement was old mortarboard. Lodge's honorary degree was his 30th. But it was novel for Arkansas' Bill Clinton, 33, the nation's youngest Governor and Georgetown's commencement speaker. Only twelve years ago, Clinton approached the same platform for his bachelor's degree. Adjusting Clinton's tassel before the ceremonies, Lodge also proffered some advice on graduation speechmaking: "You can't be too long, too heavy or too light...
...poor man. But he liked me pretty well because I felt sorry for him and thought some of the boys went too far in teasing him. But we were all surprised (and pleased) when he got married a year or two later. We had him pegged as a lifetime bachelor. Among other things, he had a thermometer calibrated to tell him which underwear to put on at which temperature...
Kollman earned her bachelor's degree in History and Russian language from Middlebury College in Vermont. She received her masters and doctorate degrees in History from Harvard...
...died in January at 76, was read that a special friend had been singularly remembered. After monetary bequests and disposition of paintings, photographs and papers accumulated in a lifetime of photography, writing and theater, Beaton made another gift. To Actress Greta Garbo, now 74, who in the 1940s rebuffed Bachelor Beaton's tender of love and marriage, went a remembrance: an exquisite oil of one red rose, by an unknown 19th century Italian...