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...wittiest" and president of his class. He breezed through college, where he roomed with Florida's Democratic Senator George Smathers. At Harvard Law School he won the prized presidency of the Law Review, graduated tenth in a class of 400 and caught the eye of New Deal Talent Scout Professor Felix Frankfurter. That landed him a job as Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed's law clerk. The next year Graham clerked for Frankfurter himself...
...Gibbons Hall." Sometimes, just for the exercise, he would take the B. & O. to Rockville, 16 miles away, then return to campus by walking 100 yards, running the next 100, walking the next, and so on. He became a fixture at every pre-game rally, an unofficial talent scout for C.U.'s athletic teams. Meanwhile, he found time to start C.U.'s famed Preachers Institute-"out of sympathy for the laymen who have suffered through poor sermons...
...nuisances. For three hard-lived centuries the Senans have paid no taxes; between last November and February they sent five doctors packing, each with his faith badly shaken in both humanity and the Hippocratic oath. Restless Paris Doctor Jean l'Haridon, 35, wartime resistance fighter and onetime Boy Scout, hoped to avoid the fate of his immediate predecessors; he saw He de Sein as a new world to conquer. When he heard that the island was again without a doctor, he volunteered his services. At first, Dr. l'Haridon was delighted. In his first week...
...There. Fate went to considerable trouble to do just that. When Bill was 20 and a second-year student at Pasadena Junior College, he got a chance at the part of Madame Curie's father in a play at the Pasadena Playbox. On opening night a Paramount talent scout, Milt Lewis, went to see the play. He couldn't see Bill for the whiskers, but he liked Bill's voice, and went backstage to see what the rest of him was like. Says Milt: "It was all there." He invited Bill to Paramount next...
...guts. Indeed, the Hemingway-Ruark axis of hairy-chested literary Tarzans may be somewhat miffed at the casual kiss-off Tiny Cloete gives their favorite outdoor sport. The whole safari business, U.S.-born Author Cloete strongly suggests, is about as rugged nowadays as camping out with a Boy Scout troop. From the time the Cloetes outfit themselves in brand-new hunting togs in Nairobi, Tiny makes it amusingly plain that she is out to slay the myth of the strong, infallible White Hunter...