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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Morton: "I think we've got a real law office here." Obscured by Brownell's political reputation was the fact that he is a crackerjack lawyer. He led his Yale Law School class, edited the Law Journal, won an Order of the Coif (he was Phi Beta Kappa from his home-state University of Nebraska), and is still considered by two former deans to rank among the finest students in Yale history. In private practice he was a partner in Manhattan's Lord, Day & Lord for more than 20 years (resigning only to become Attorney General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUSTICE: Back-Room Man Out Front | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

Morgan, a Phi Beta Kappa at Washington's Whitman College, became a reporter in Seattle in 1932, worked nine years for the United Press, roved for the Chicago Daily News in World War II, covering the battle of Britain and the fall of Rome. Later he worked for CBS in Berlin and London and for Collier's in Europe and the Mideast. He was head of radio and TV news for CBS when the then un-merged A.F.L. lured him back to the microphone in 1954. Since then, Morgan has sometimes differed with A.F.L.-C.I.O. policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Winners | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

Hyman Marcus is a fast-talking former math teacher and Phi Beta Kappa man (Columbia) who in three years transformed a shaky manufacturer of laundry machines into a corporate complex grossing more than $90 million. In late 1953 he bought his way into U.S. Hoffman Machinery Corp., an oldtime concern with $13 million in debts, shored up its tottering finances, became president in 1954. By trading stock in the Hoffman Corp., he acquired 23 profitable subsidiaries, manufacturing everything from candy to tin cans. But somewhere along the line, Hyman Marcus' magic touch began to fail. Day after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Touch That Failed | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...Claus for a doll on roller skates and an Austin." Growing up in Topeka, Kans., she was a determined tomboy, mashed the end of a finger playing softball, and was easily "the best blocking back on the block." At Mills College near San Francisco she won a Phi Beta Kappa key as a philosophy major, and after graduating in 1947 decided to become a reporter. She haunted the San Francisco Chronicle city room for six months before penetrating the conventional misogyny of the craft and persuading the weekly news review to hire her. "Denny has always been in the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tomboy with a Typewriter | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

This record, which of itself must be of greater relevance to the Board's election than those things with which you were concerned, includes Bunker's graduation from Harvard Magna Cum Laude; his election to Phi Beta Kappa; his attending Trinity College, Cambridge, on a Rhodes Scholarship; and the many military honors bestowed upon him both before and after his service as Aide-de-Camp to General MacArthur, including the Distinguished Service Medal and the Legion of Merit. These things, plus the fact that he has attained great success and recognition as a lawyer, as a businessman, as a military...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE OVERSEERS | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

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