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Wald did not "prepare" for Harvard but came to the University after distinguishing himself as a researcher. He earned his B.S. degree at New York University in 1927 and received a Ph.D. at Columbia five years later. At the age of 27, on a fellowship in Europe the next year, Wald succeeded in isolating Vitamin A, which had just been discovered. He helped to complete the identification of the vitamin several months later...
Barbara-whose parents never went beyond third grade-will begin graduate work in African history this fall at Northwestern, where she has won a two-year fellowship. Reginald, meanwhile, will continue with his architecture program at Howard until he can transfer to Chicago. They are unhappy about the separation. "We're partners, working partners," says Barbara...
...planned to go to law school. Then she won a string of beauty titles, including Miss University at Ole Miss and first alternate to Miss Mississippi, so she began eyeing a more glamorous career in television. This summer she is entering graduate school at Ole Miss with a radio/TV fellowship. She has landed her first journalistic job-as studio manager of the university's closed circuit cable television station. "It's an exposure-conscious field and there are a lot of attractive women who will enter it," says she. "You've got to be pretty and perky...
...Abduction from the Seraglio), Denbow has her heart set on an operatic career-but she is realistic about her chances. "Sopranos are a dime a dozen," she says. "You just hope that you stick with it long enough that the others will have given up." Having won a graduate fellowship to the conservatory, she adds: "As long as the voice matures so late, I might as well use school as a haven and not face the cold, cruel world...
...probably the brightest analytical mind we have ever met." Jim Schlesinger attended the right schools: P.S. 6, Horace Mann, Harvard (summa cum laude. Class of '50), where he was a classmate of Henry Kissinger. After earning his B.A. in economics, Schlesinger took off in 1950 on a traveling fellowship to Europe. In Vienna, then under four-power occupation, he inadvertently walked past the Imperial Hotel, the Soviet headquarters. A Russian sentry trained his submachine gun on the lanky Harvard student. Recalls Schlesinger: "With a rare gesture of compassion, he waved the barrel, motioning me on. I moved...