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...most of the students and faculty at Yale, husky, engaging Kingman Brewster Jr., 44, has long been the odds-on favorite to succeed President A. Whitney Griswold who died of cancer last April. As university provost and thus Yale's No. 2 faculty officer since 1961, Brewster had proved to be a. hardworking combination of scholar and administrator, and succeeded in charming New Haven in the bargain. But there were dark rumors of dissent among the 16 members of the arcane council that had the power of final decision, the Yale Corporation. For one thing, academic purists pointed...
...Grad Sailor. The path back to Yale started at Martha's Vineyard, Mass., where the Brewsters and their five children spend their summer sailing. A neighbor and fellow sailor at Vineyard Haven was Whitney Griswold. Becoming good friends, the Old Grad and the President ribbed each other unmercifully. "What are you doing to my alma mater?" Brewster would roar, joshing Griswold about student riots at New Haven, losing football teams or his presidential speeches. When the rumor spread that Brewster was under consideration as next dean of the Harvard Law School, Griswold in 1960 offered Brewster Yale...
After ten years on the faculty, and seven as a full professor of Law, Brewster became provost at Yale in 1960 at the request of his personal friend, President Griswold...
...former professor at the Harvard Law School, Brewster had been serving as acting president since Griswold's death. He had been Provost of Yale since...
...been considered the leading candidate for the presidency of Yale since Griswold's death, but as the Corporation took more and more time in its search for a new president, observers began to speculate that Brewster had also lost support. When he refused to allow Alabama's Gov. George Wallace to appear at Yale, then reversed himself and announced that he would permit Wallace to speak...