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...sketchbook in his hand; at twelve, he had a part-time job as a sign painter. He worked his way through the University of Illinois painting scenery, illustrating menus and lecture notes for a duplicating company, picking up odd art jobs. He majored in architecture, minored in physics, bore down heavily on history, and rationed his time between so many projects (he was captain of the fencing team) that he wore himself down from 175 Ibs. to 130. He graduated in June 1930?straight into the Depression...
...second wife and moved to a bachelor apartment. A precociously distinguished jurist and an outdoorsman of rare dedication, Douglas had in 1923 married Mildred Riddle, a girl he had met while both taught at Yakima, Wash., high school. Mildred worked to help him through Columbia University Law School, bore him a son and daughter. But after 30 years of marriage, in 1953, she divorced him, charging that he left her "abandoned and alone" while working and graveling "to remote places in the world...
Trees in Harvard Yard Wednesday bore signs of an attempt to integrate the two cultures: students and faculty. Social Director Karen Ordahl ingeniously labelled Yard trees to personify the Groves of Academe: English, Mathematics, Philosophy; Tuffets Restoration Society...
Kissenger was convinced in 1951 that the generation reaching positions of leadership vitally needed a chance to escape purely professional concerns and purely nationalistic attitudes. His idea bore fruit in the foundation of the Seminar. Each summer since 1951 the program has brought these young leaders to Harvard (all expenses paid), where for eight weeks they both study and experience the unfamiliar reality of American life...
...stamp of personality that enlivened four generations of American journalism. In Chicago it was the incomparable Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, in Washington the acid Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson, in New York the swashbuckling Captain Joseph Medill Patterson. More recently, a raven-haired bundle of energy named Alicia Patterson Guggenheim bore the family banner with her Long Island tabloid, Newsday. Last week at the age of 56, Alicia Patterson died, and for the first time in 143 years no member of the dynasty ran a newspaper...