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...Oscar G. stood on a butter tub behind the counter to take orders. Weisswurst, Bockwurst, Leberwurst were packed into wicker baskets and piled on horse-drawn wagons to make the rounds. They sold well-enough to send Oscar G. to Harvard, which he left with a Phi Beta Kappa key and ambitions to expand the family business...
...Harvard graduate who was practicing medicine in Milton, he entered the College in 1929 as the nation plunged into the Great Depression. In four years, he performed amazing athletic and scholastic feats, winning All-America and Phi Beta Kappa honors. When he graduated in 1932, he had 10 letters and the preeminent position in the pantheon of Harvard sports heroes...
...Mississippi-born sharecropper, Fred Harris is a liberal by osmosis. "He had to work like a dog for everything he has," recalls Earl Sneed, his former law school dean. "Consequently, he would be very sympathetic to those who are disadvantaged." A Phi Beta Kappa and No. 1 graduate of his University of Oklahoma law class, Harris has pretty well known where he wanted to go since, at age five, he led a horse around in circles to power a hay baler. He wanted to get an education and rise to the top. He married his Comanche Indian sweet heart, LaDonna...
...Summa Cum Laude graduate from Princeton in 1956, Rudenstein was elected Phi Beta Kappa and a Rhodes scholar his senior year...
After graduating from Swarthmore Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude in Greek, he came to Harvard in the fall of 1966 on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to major in modern English literature. Although still protected by his 2-S graduate deferment, Ferber decided then that his religious and non-violent beliefs had matured sufficiently for him to apply for a 1-O deferment as a conscientious objector. He started out strictly legally, "playing the game their way," but circumstances and his own morality soon compelled him to a position outside...