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...middle-group offerings. But this would not account for the later years when the advanced standing students appear to maintain and improve the margin of their superior performance. And it would certainly not account for the fact that, of those who have graduated, almost half have received degrees of magna or better...
...Eliot was never much of a proper Bostonian anyway. A son of Samuel A. Eliot, the famed Unitarian minister, he pronounced himself a Democrat at the age of ten. He alone voted for Woodrow Wilson in a class poll at Browne and Nichols School, and after earning a magna cum laude in government at Harvard in 1928 and a Harvard law degree in 1932, he enlisted in F.D.R.'s New Deal.* As a Labor Department lawyer, Blueblood Democrat Eliot helped arbitrate the San Francisco general strike in 1934. As general counsel of the Social Security Board, he helped defend...
Discharged in 1946, White received his law degree from Yale magna cum laude. He married his University of Colorado sweetheart, Marion Stearns, daughter of the university president. Fresh out of law school, he got a cherished appointment: law clerk to Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson. Kennedy, then a U.S. Representative, had his office near the Court building, and the two met again. "When we bumped into each other, we always had something to talk about," says White. When his term with Vinson was up, White went to two of Washington's biggest law firms in search...
...most spectacular dressers of Christendom, he has to lay out at least $3,000 for his cassocks and skullcaps of scarlet and purple* (which are worn during Lent, Advent and other times of penance and mourning), his white lace rochets, silk sashes, and the splendid cappa magna - a 15-ft-long scarlet train worn on solemn liturgical occasions. As a member of the church's senate, a cardinal advises the Pope on church policy, helps run the Vatican's huge bureaucracy, and will elect one of his number to the papacy when John XXIII dies...
...because he produces anonymous architecture in a prescribed time and at the least cost and fuss to his clients." Luckman denies only the "anonymous" part of that charge. He insists that "I'm in this business not for security but for satisfaction" Kansas City-born, Luckman was graduated magna cum laude in architecture from the University of Illinois ('31). But Depression pressures pushed him into store-to-store selling. He soon was making news as well as sales. He was credited with discovering Bob Hope for Pepsodent (someone else did). He commissioned the glass-skinned Lever House...