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...California electronics engineering student, racked up three years of 4.0 at Berkeley after an unblemished year at the University of Arizona. Thomas J. Messenger had perfect marks as a physical chemistry major at the University of Michigan. Air Force Veteran George Chartier, a 30-year-old psychology major, completed straight-A work at the University of Illinois' Urbana campus. So did David Lee Karney at the University of Texas and Roberta Bernstein at the University of Massachusetts...
Muriel Humphrey, D.F.A., straight-A Huron High School student who dropped out of Huron College to help Hubert get through the University of Minnesota. As wife of the Vice President of the United States she has fulfilled the role with modesty, graciousness and dignity...
...squarest guys in town. Because of his Baptist credentials, his cottage-cheese complexion and Sunday-school propriety, he is likely to have trouble shedding the Eagle Scout image. Yet, insists Dr. DeWitt Reddick. director of the University of Texas Journalism School, where Moyers was a straight-A student: "There's nothing sanctimonious about him." And, press critics to the contrary, he was never a Boy Scout...
Banana Breakfast. A straight-A student, DeBakey raced through Tulane for both his B.S. and M.D. degrees, stayed to get an M.S. for research on peptic ulcer. He got appointments to the universities of Strasbourg and Heidelberg, where he also continued courting Diana Cooper, a pretty nurse whom he had met in New Orleans before she went to the American Hospital in Paris. After Europe and marriage, it was back to Tulane to the department of surgery under Dr. Alton Ochsner.* During the '30s, young Dr. DeBakey became an expert in blood transfusions and invented a roller pump...
...such case involved a Denver student who underwent a metamorphosis junior high and high school. According to Time, he "suddenly blossomed a straight-A introverted bookworm articulate leader:" editor of the paper, president of the city's "Youth Kennedy" organization, and class vale-. "But," the article continues, slipped just a shade. As a Harvard passed him over...