Word: phi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supreme court judge. After prepping at Hotchkiss. young Potter wavered between law and journalism at Yale, was chairman of the Yale Daily News, tried a summertime stint as a cub reporter on the Taft family's Cincinnati Times-Star before finally deciding on law. Graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa (1937)) ne spent a year studying international law at Cambridge University on a Henry Fellowship (awarded to four U.S. college graduates a year), then graduated from Yale Law School ('41), also cum laude. He saw World War II sea duty as a lieutenant aboard Navy oilers, "floating...
...fire hose and earned a black eye during a battle between his sophomore class and freshmen, ran and lost for president of the junior class. In the Rockefeller tradition he also taught Sunday school, abstained from smoking and the traditional applejack parties in White River Junction and made Phi Beta Kappa as his father had at Brown...
...study." Donner's parents put him through the University of Michigan because, explained his aged mother: "A boy can't become an honor student unless you pay his way." Fred became an honor student in economics, got straight A's (except one history B), made Phi Beta Kappa...
...concluded with "Prelude to an Evening" and "Painted Head," and at the audience's request, he read a poem he had first written for a Harvard Phi Beta Kappa convocation...
...journalist was all that big, slow-talking, prematurely grey Jim McConaughy ever wanted to be. Son of James Lukens McConaughy, president of Wesleyan University and Connecticut's Republican Governor from 1946 to 1948, Jim got a job with the Hartford Times while still at Wesleyan, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. In 1938 he came to TIME and asked for a job. The only place open at the time was as a copy boy; he took it. Later he went to Chicago as a correspondent, returned to New York as a writer. In 1944 he traveled to Parris Island...