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...Estes case, from the grain-storage bond to Miss Mary Jones. At his press conference last week, President Kennedy came to Freeman's defense but on rather odd grounds-not that Freeman had been doing a good job but that he played football in college, made Phi Beta Kappa, "had most of his jaw shot off in Bougainville," and served three terms as Governor of Minnesota. These points are true enough, but irrelevant. All Kennedy said about Freeman as Secretary was that the job had been "challenging." Having made a weak defense, Kennedy followed up with a weak counterattack...
...guerilla warfare unit. After the war he helped rebuild a Dutch town which had been destroyed in battle, led a troop of soldiers to England where they did land work on a British farm, and finally returned to Cambridge and Harvard Law School. A member of Phi Beta Kappa. Davidson has since been engaged in an international law practice and is, at the same time, President of Technical Studies, Inc., which owns twenty-five per cent of the international channel tunnel firm...
...interpreting another Williams on Broadway (Cat) and in Hollywood (Streetcar}, Method Director Elia Kazan, 52, finally won a scholastic laurel that eluded him when he graduated in 1930. For having brought "unfailingly high standards to all he has touched," "Gadge" Kazan was granted honorary membership in Phi Beta Kappa...
...Beta Kappa Junior Eight includes the following: Paul G. Bamberg of Eliot House and Middletown, R.I.; David S. Cole, of Lowell House and New York, N.Y.; Lawrence J. Corwin, of Winthrop House and Teaneck, N.J.; George A. Goldberg, of Quincy House and Mt. Vernon, N.Y.; Stephen C. Harrison, of Lowell House and Baltimore, Md.; Gary H. Lindberg, of Dudley House and Minneapolis, Minn.; David H. Sachs, of Leverett House and Yonkers, N.Y.; Raymond A. Sokolov, Jr., of Lowell House and Detroit, Mich...
...Colorado. His father, a lumberman, was town mayor-and a devoted Republican. Byron was valedictorian of his five-member high school class, went to the University of Colorado in nearby Boulder, where he waited table at the Phi Gamma Delta house, slung hash in a sorority, made Phi Beta Kappa-and became a Democrat. These were Depression years, and White was impressed by Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. "It seemed to me," he recalls, "that the Democrats had the more forward-looking programs." Hall of Fame. As a 6 ft. 2 in., 190-lb. halfback, White...