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...anxious to give himself and his son a chance to recover from the tragedy, Painter sent Mark to live temporarily with his wife's parents on their 80-acre farm in Ames, Iowa. In the fall of 1964, Painter married his second wife, Marylyn, an artist, a Phi Beta Kappa Berkeley graduate and a former Red Cross worker in Japan and Korea. The newlyweds moved into a ramshackle old Victorian house in Walnut Creek near San Francisco and concentrated on turning it into a warm, imaginatively decorated home for themselves and Mark. Formerly night copy editor of the Oakland...
...Thomas Edison Miyawaki applied for a teaching assistanceship at the University of California's San Francisco Medical Center in September 1964, he had what its officials considered "a very excellent record." Indeed it was. According to his transcripts, Hawaiian-born Miyawaki had a science degree from Johns Hopkins (Phi Beta Kappa, and all A's and B's), an M.D. from Columbia University. He also claimed two years of internship and residency at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital. Naturally, California gave him the assistanceship, along with a salary of $304 a month...
...yearlong tour of the world. On his return, he entered Harvard in the same class (1938) as the late Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., recalls him as a bright, amiable fellow who might have gone far in politics -but not so far as his brother John. Schlesinger made Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year, seemed a cinch to win highest honors-until his final oral exam. "Since Arthur knew so much," says Professor Paul H. Buck, "I felt I should give him a very stiff exam." It was so stiff that Arthur went home convinced he had flunked. That night...
Within the student body, high grades are a definite status symbol. In a school surfeited with Phi Betas and Fulbrights, the high-ranking students are regarded with awe. Everyone knows the ranking of the top 30 students. On more than one occasion, the top-ranked student has been pointed out to parents and dates as a type of tourist attraction, to be seen along with Langdell Hall and the statue of John Harvard in the Yard...
McGrath meanwhile formulated his plans. He hopes to draw students from roughly the top third of high school classes rather than from the top 10% as many select schools do. His own high school grades were below average, yet he made Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Buffalo. "This country," he says emphatically, "was not built by the upper 10%." Full professors will be paid an average $15,000 a year, get 20 paid weeks off every third year. The curriculum will be pared to a relatively small number of liberal-arts courses to enable students...