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...middle of his skull; a quick smile, a rueful laugh, eyes that are inclined to bulge. Is a serious, thinking, worrying, hard-working,, self-criticizing introvert. A frugal man, he has an income of about $50,000 a year (mostly from his one-fourth interest in the Bloomington, Ill. Daily Pantagraph...
Childhood: Born Feb. 5, 1900, in Los Angeles, where his father was assistant general manager of Hearst's Examiner. When Adlai was six, the family returned to Bloomington, Ill., where Adlai and his sister Elizabeth (now Mrs. Ernest Ives of Chicago, wife of a wealthy retired U.S. diplomat) grew up. Not a sturdy boy, he often got into fights to prove that he was not a sissy, suffered a broken nose two or three times in that cause...
Education: Attended Bloomington public schools, Choate school, graduated from Princeton in 1922. Was something of a politician and a medium-sized man on the campus, managing editor of the Daily Princetonian. His nervous, hurrying habits ("a nice, harmless, pleasant guy," a roommate recalls) brought him a nickname: "Rabbit." Entered Harvard Law School, dropped out within two years because of low grades. Did better at Northwestern University Law School, was graduated...
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Died. Alvin Nugent ("Bo") McMillin, 53, All-America backfield man and for 14 years coach at the University of Indiana; of a heart attack induced by cancer; in Bloomington, Ind. Texas-born "Bo" won fame in 1921 as quarterback of little Centre College's "Praying Colonels." In 1945, he coached his "pore little boys" at Indiana to their only Western Big Ten football championship...