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...Sheldon Dietz ranked 202nd in the Class of 1937 at Boston Latin. "There were 250 people in the class," he says, of which 40 shouldn't have graduated...

Author: By Robert A. Rafsky, | Title: Sheldon Dietz: A One-Man Pressure Group | 6/16/1966 | See Source »

Nevertheless he went to the Harvard admission meeting in his senior year. "Dietz, what the hell are you. Doing here?" a classmate asked him. Dietz wasn't sure. But he had already applied to Rutgers, the University of. Michigan, Cornell, and Bowdoin, and he figured he might as well ask Harvard. His teachers told him no. He did it anyway...

Author: By Robert A. Rafsky, | Title: Sheldon Dietz: A One-Man Pressure Group | 6/16/1966 | See Source »

...difficult to see how he won. Diets almost never let down his guard against anyone who acts like an expert. Even when he is sitting and talking with a reporter, he constantly interrupts himself by asking. "Did what I just say make sense?" If the reporter answers yes, Dietz simply asks...

Author: By Robert A. Rafsky, | Title: Sheldon Dietz: A One-Man Pressure Group | 6/16/1966 | See Source »

...Dietz's overbearing confidence in himself often magnetizes the people around him. One night last winter he kept the CRIMSON's newsroom in an uproar for five minutes with and imitation of a printing press. When he gets his shoes shined at the place next to the Harvard Square Theater, he keeps every one of the shoeshine boys in stitches...

Author: By Robert A. Rafsky, | Title: Sheldon Dietz: A One-Man Pressure Group | 6/16/1966 | See Source »

...Appeals Board denies Dietz' petition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHRONOLOGY | 2/23/1966 | See Source »

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