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...other men, William W. Barber of St. Mark's School and John M. Kemper of Phillips Andover Academy, said that although they didn't think many boys would want to miss their senior year in school the opportunity to obtain such an advanced standing should be made available to them
...about how he would one day make big money without working. When he was eleven, his mother, trying to keep him busy and out of scrapes, paid the local telephone company to hire him as a lineman's helper. The experiment failed, and Carl was shipped away to Kemper Military School at Boonville, Mo. When he got into more trouble, his mother pushed him into the Marine Corps. He went AWOL, explaining later: "I'd rather be in jail than in the Marines...
...prison, he wangled a soft job on the hospital detail. He remembered a Kemper schoolmate, Paul Greenlease. foster brother of Bobby. The Greenlease family was rich, Hall knew. His plans began to take shape. He was paroled last April, after serving only 14 months of a five-year term. He got and lost a job as an auto salesman, and then told the parole office, to which he reported regularly, that he was working for an insurance company. This was a lie, detectable by a telephone call, but Hall was not caught...
...Ambassador to Brazil, succeeding Herschel Johnson: James S. (for Scott) Kemper, 66, Chicago insurance executive and onetime (1944-46) treasurer of the Republican National Committee.* Kemper, who climbed from a clerkship to be head of seven companies which together form the Kemper group, one of the world's largest casualty and fire insurance groups, is a bluff, bustling, self-made businessman. He has long been interested in Pan American amity, helped found the Inter-American Council of Commerce and Production, has been decorated by Brazil and Ecuador. Kemper belongs to the conservative wing of the G.O.P., did yeoman work...
...confused with James Madison Kemper, Kansas City insurance executive and a Democrat...