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Sallie Bingham seems to be winning all kinds of prizes, including not only the Dana Reed Prize ("Winter Term") and the Radcliffe Phi Beta Kappa Prize ("The Riding Lesson"), but also the Advocate Prize. Unfortunately, her vision of "Luke" has been choked by the tedious semi-genteel mannerism of her situation. As a result, this new story has almost none of the lure of "Winter Term" or the intensity of "The Riding Lesson." Just why it was given a prize is hard to discern, since it is not Miss Bingham's best, nor the best in the Advocate...
Stearns is the First Marshal of Phi Beta Kappa and Vice President of Phillips Brooks House. Earlier this year he was awarded the Palfrey Exhibition...
...Perry Morton: "I think we've got a real law office here." Obscured by Brownell's political reputation was the fact that he is a crackerjack lawyer. He led his Yale Law School class, edited the Law Journal, won an Order of the Coif (he was Phi Beta Kappa from his home-state University of Nebraska), and is still considered by two former deans to rank among the finest students in Yale history. In private practice he was a partner in Manhattan's Lord, Day & Lord for more than 20 years (resigning only to become Attorney General...
Morgan, a Phi Beta Kappa at Washington's Whitman College, became a reporter in Seattle in 1932, worked nine years for the United Press, roved for the Chicago Daily News in World War II, covering the battle of Britain and the fall of Rome. Later he worked for CBS in Berlin and London and for Collier's in Europe and the Mideast. He was head of radio and TV news for CBS when the then un-merged A.F.L. lured him back to the microphone in 1954. Since then, Morgan has sometimes differed with A.F.L.-C.I.O. policy...
Hyman Marcus is a fast-talking former math teacher and Phi Beta Kappa man (Columbia) who in three years transformed a shaky manufacturer of laundry machines into a corporate complex grossing more than $90 million. In late 1953 he bought his way into U.S. Hoffman Machinery Corp., an oldtime concern with $13 million in debts, shored up its tottering finances, became president in 1954. By trading stock in the Hoffman Corp., he acquired 23 profitable subsidiaries, manufacturing everything from candy to tin cans. But somewhere along the line, Hyman Marcus' magic touch began to fail. Day after...