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During his student days at Brown University, "Johnny Rock" overcame some of his shyness, won a Phi Beta Kappa key and the heart of pretty Abby Aldrich, the daughter of Rhode Island Senator Nelson Aldrich. At 23, the young man entered his father's austere offices at 26 Broadway, first filling the inkwells and performing other humble chores. Four years later he and Abby were married. When he asked her father for her hand, and awkwardly tried to explain that he could support her properly, Senator Aldrich gently changed the subject...
...German immigrant who made a tidy fortune in lumber, Paepcke was the product of good Chicago private schools and more than the normal dose of private tutoring. He earned a Phi Beta Kappa key at Yale, in 1926 struck out for himself in business. By 1945, he had built up the Container Corp. of America into one of the world's most imaginative packaging concerns. But that year he also took a fateful vacation in Colorado...
...high schools. Just 24 last week, and married to a medical student at Northwestern University, she has the face and figure of a campus beauty queen, which she was a few years ago at Minnesota's Carleton College. (She also graduated magna cum laude with a Phi Beta Kappa key.) But her 100 students in four daily classes have no time for ogling her. Teacher De Long is a perfectionist; she conscientiously demands-and scrupulously grades-one theme per student each week. Result: she works 14 hours a day six days a week and most of Sunday. "This consumes...
...Potent Group. A Harvard Phi Beta Kappa ('32) and onetime ABC vice president for public affairs, sad-faced Bob Saudek was running the Ford Foundation's TV-Radio Workshop when he developed the idea for Omnibus. Getting the program under way with foundation capital, he evolved a principle that his firm applies today with its own funds: "We should take the money and blow it, and we should blow it in a big way." The big way brought some memorable shows to the air (The Life of Samuel Johnson, Orson Welles's King Lear, Comic Satirists Mike...
...School's new director held a National Scholarship and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard after serving in the Second World War. During the Korean crisis he taught history and economics at West Point, joining the University's staff in 1956 after two years with the Ford Company...