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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between Camp & Campus. Jack McCloy's first steps were taken in Philadelphia where he was born in 1895 ("north of Market Street, on the wrong side of the railroad tracks," McCloy explains). His father, who came of Scotch-Irish Presbyterian stock, worked for an insurance company. When Jack was six his father died, leaving no insurance. Mother Anna May Snader McCloy, of Pennsylvania Dutch (i.e., German) background, learned nursing, told Jack his father had hoped he would be a lawyer, skimped & saved to send him to Maplewood, a Quaker boarding school, then to Peddie, Amherst College and finally Harvard...
...Amherst, Anna McCloy's boy studied hard (a cum laude graduate), earned part of his way by waiting on tables for meals, tutoring during vacation, won a letter in tennis. The war in Europe invaded the Amherst campus in 1916. Jack McCloy plumped for "preparedness" as against "pacifism." He spent the summer after graduation training at Plattsburg. The U.S. was in the war as he finished his first year at Harvard Law. He hurried to Plattsburg again...
...first day all the principals went to the campus to look over Cirrotta's quarters. The next morning they huddled for several hours. In the afternoon an announcement was made in court: the state would permit Tom Doxsee to change his plea from not guilty to no contest. The judge gave him a sentence of one to two years in prison, which was suspended, and a $500 fine. Ray Cirrotta's father, in court for the hearing, collapsed when he heard the sentence. Young Tom Doxsee, as his lawyer paid the $500, said he was "disappointed" with...
That rocked the campus. Cried the undergraduate Michigan Daily: "The atmosphere of a Gilbert and Sullivan opera mixed with Keystone cops . . ." The Daily wanted the dry law repealed...
...only a matter of days before the big invasion, when some 150,000 graduating college seniors would fan out over the workaday U.S. in search of jobs. What kind of people would they turn out to be? This week, after interviewing deans, campus placement bureaus, business recruiters and seniors, FORTUNE gave an answer...