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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anderson graduated magna cum laude from here in 1939. In 1954, his "Tea and Sympathy" won the New York Critics Award. He also wrote "All Summer Long" in the same year...
...future President worked as a telegraph operator in Belo Horizonte for seven years, putting himself through preparatory schools and medical school. On the job from midnight to 7 a.m., he started classes at 8 a.m., snatched a few hours of sleep in the afternoon. He got his M.D. (cum laude) at 26, resigned his telegrapher's job the same day. Meanwhile, his sister Maria had married a prosperous Belo Horizonte surgeon, who made Kubitschek his assistant. A year later, bitten by wanderlust, Kubitschek borrowed money from rich friends and took off for Europe-supposedly to study, but actually...
...There is greater temptation to take in only the Cum Laude and the Magna Cum Laude applicants," said Dean Elder, "but this is the sure way of getting one third of your students to be dull and uninteresting...
...went on to Harvard Business School ('34), graduated cum laude, then got a job setting up a sales incentive plan for American Radiator, where he learned "not to talk unless you know what you are talking about." In 1940 Sylvania hired him away as sales-planning director; a year and four months later he was in Washington helping Banker Sidney Weinberg set up the Industry Advisory committees of the War Production Board, became Weinberg's protégé, and later an assistant to War Production Board Chief Donald Nelson. Everywhere he went, Funston's personality magically...
...Summa cum Laude. In Rome, Aristide Egidi, 47, was arrested for posing as a physician when police learned that his elegant, Greek-written diploma was an oldtime letter of recommendation after his work as a chauffeur in the Greek embassy...