Word: craige
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During summers, between his years at high school, Craig went to Culver Military Academy, an experience that has left him with a cadet's brace posture. Because he wanted to see some of the country, he spent his first two college years at the University of Arizona, where he joined the forbidden drinking fraternity, Kappa Beta Phi, which was the reverse of Phi Beta Kappa in more than title. "I took liberal arts," says Craig. "Damn liberal, too, I'll tell...
After two raucous years at Arizona, Craig went back home and applied for admission to the Indiana University Law School. At first it appeared that he would be turned down, but the dean of the school, who may have been appreciating a kindred spirit, looked him over and decided to let him in. The dean: Paul Vories McNutt, who had been national commander of the American Legion, and was soon to be governor of Indiana...
...school Craig settled down and studied hard for the first time in his life, and was a better-than-average student. He became president of his two fraternities (Delta Chi, Delta Theta Phi), acquired the maximum number of cauliflower ears as a member of the university's wrestling team. In his last year of law school, he married his high-school sweetheart, Kathryn Heiliger (they have a son and a daughter), and graduated with a bachelor of law degree in 1932. A big campus politician in the same graduating class, but not a close friend of Craig...
Passport to Prominence. In the depth of the Depression, George Craig went to Brazil to practice law with his father, and took whatever he could get-potatoes, meat, eggs and, once, three runt pigs-in lieu of cash fees. He became G.O.P. Chairman of Clay County, tried to get the nomination for lieutenant governor, and then got his passport to political success: in 1942 the U.S. Army Reserve called R.O.T.C. Lieutenant Craig to active duty in World...
Earning his passport, Craig served well as a divisional staff officer (G3) with the 80th Infantry Division, which landed on Utah Beach and was in combat for 239 days in Europe in 1944-45. With the 80th Craig picked up administrative experience under heavy pressure, learned to shave with toilet soap (which he still uses instead of shaving cream), and made an important acquaintance. One day, when General Dwight Eisenhower visited the division's headquarters in the basement of a brick school building in the Saar, Major Craig was assigned to brief the general on the division...