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...Senator Clinton Anderson, who started keeping licorice in his Capitol desk years ago to sweeten up dull debates. "I would give Wayne Morse some. Then Alan Bible would look over and say, 'What are you doing?' and he'd come around. Gaylord Nelson is the smartest. He waits till he sees a hand going into the box, then he'll come over. Mike Mansfield comes around a lot too. The other day, I accused George Smothers of stealing. He said, 'Not only that, I can prove it,' and he pulled two pieces from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 5, 1964 | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

...Darwinian delights of coeducation and rising college-entrance standards is that the smartest 10% of young Americans are now thrown to gether on campuses at the most susceptible age for romance and marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: The Genius Explosion | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

...just another girl from Middlesex who called herself a model-a euphemism as vague as "starlet" and with just as many implications. But leggy, redheaded Christine Keeler, 21, managed to move in Mayfair's smartest circles and numbered among her wide range of gentlemen acquaintances top names in London's political, social, diplomatic and show business worlds. Last week the social life of Christine Keeler, onetime waitress and fulltime playgirl, was all over the front pages of the British press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Case of the Sensitive Osteopath | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

...smartest man I know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Death of a Senator | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...result. Reed is often said to have the "smartest body of undergraduates in America." This year's average Reed freshman ranked in the top 4% of all U.S. students taking college board exams; one-third of the class was in the top 2%. Reed leads the country in ratio of Rhodes scholarships to male graduates (1 to 71), in percentage of graduates winning Woodrow Wilson fellowships, and in percentage of graduates who have gone on to become college and university teachers, notably in science. Just for variety, Reed also lists such odd alumni as a talented writer who became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: A Thinking Reed | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

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