Word: valedictorians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that were not enough talent for a rookie, Pesky also has stuff between the ears. Valedictorian of his high-school class at Portland, Ore., he is now the Red Sox's No. 1 public speaker, having delivered some 40 speeches at banquets, luncheons, club meetings. But little Pesky is still awed by his big-league teammates, especially Bobby Doerr and Lou Finney, whose shoes he used to shine when he was a "clubhouse punk" for the Portland Beavers...
Naval Academy appoints Joseph Francis Dolan of Arlington, living at home, was president of his high school debating club, and John James McCulloch, of Arlington and Mathews Hall, the West Point nominee, was valedictorian of the school, and captained the Yardling cross-country team...
Indirectly, Valedictorian Martin confessed that the job of Stock Exchange president was hopeless and thankless. Nobody knew whom the president was supposed to represent or what he was supposed to do. But fate had provided Bill Martin with a face-saving exit. Disinclined to plead exemption on the ground that his job is of civil importance, he is prepared to be drafted as soon as his number comes up (probably in May). Wall Street's Boy Wonder of 1938 is 1941's most willing draftee...
...Dillard a dollar goes thrice as far as in most private colleges. Tuition, room and board cost an undergraduate about $270 a year. Today Dillard has a $500,000 hospital (TIME, April 8), an able faculty (most popular: Sociologist Allison "Deepie" Davis, onetime Williams College valedictorian), a picked student body...