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Discharged in 1946, White received his law degree from Yale magna cum laude. He married his University of Colorado sweetheart, Marion Stearns, daughter of the university president. Fresh out of law school, he got a cherished appointment: law clerk to Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson. Kennedy, then a U.S. Representative, had his office near the Court building, and the two met again. "When we bumped into each other, we always had something to talk about," says White. When his term with Vinson was up, White went to two of Washington's biggest law firms in search...
...produces anonymous architecture in a prescribed time and at the least cost and fuss to his clients." Luckman denies only the "anonymous" part of that charge. He insists that "I'm in this business not for security but for satisfaction" Kansas City-born, Luckman was graduated magna cum laude in architecture from the University of Illinois ('31). But Depression pressures pushed him into store-to-store selling. He soon was making news as well as sales. He was credited with discovering Bob Hope for Pepsodent (someone else did). He commissioned the glass-skinned Lever House on Park Avenue...
...struck, not stagestruck.'' Born in Malden, Mass., of Greek parents of Anatolian origin, Kalem spoke Greek before English. At Harvard, he remembers being thrilled by the late Ted Spencer reading Shakespeare aloud, and Hamlet remains his favorite play. One month after emerging from Harvard (A.B. '42, cum laude), Kalem was in the Army. With the 24th Division in the Philippines, he won the Bronze Star under gunfire "for staying on the telephone for 17 hours when the Japs seemed to be about to stage a landing on Mindoro," giving him a dislike of phones ever since. After...
Football fame, scorned as it was by intellectuals, was the key that unlocked the sources of money that now pay for Notre Dame's increasing academic quality. The more scholarly graduates nowadays like to recall that Coach Rockne was also a magna cum laude graduate ('15), a brilliant chemistry student who worked with Father Julius Nieuwland, discoverer of the base for synthetic rubber. In 1952, Notre Dame honored Nieuwland with a first-rate science building that bears his name and the inscription. "All Things God Hath Made Are Good and Each of Them Serves Its Turn...
Charles S. Maier '60 of Scarsdale, N.Y. holds the first Ray Atherton Fellowship for 1961-62. He is studying the history of modern Europe. Maier received the A.B. degree summa cum laude from Harvard, in 1960 and studied at Oxford on a Henry Fellowship in 1960-61. As an undergraduate, he was executive editor of the CRIMSON...