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...stay at Columbia College in Eugene. Ore. lasted only three months and no records survived, but Joaquin always said that he was valedictorian of his class. He soon added horse-stealing, jail-breaking, and pony express riding to his postgraduate skills. Already writing doggerel himself, he was bowled over by the newspaper poems of one Minnie Myrtle, "Sweet Singer of the Coquille." Joaquin met, wooed and won Minnie in three days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: California Laureate | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

...Dulles of Watertown, N.Y., wanted eldest son John to follow the ministry, but grandfather Foster swayed the boy to international law and diplomacy, sending him to Switzerland for six months to study French, a few years later taking him along to an international conference at The Hague. Dulles was valedictorian of the Princeton class of 1908. He spent a year at the Sorbonne in Paris, then received a law degree from George Washington University (top man in his class after doing a three-year course in two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NEW ADMINISTRATION: Secretary of State | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

Clifton "Belvedere" Webb is back with more boffs. In fact, the first scene opens on graduation ceremonies at Willa Remington College where his daughter is head of her class and valedictorian. Although Webb takes the role of Mr. Osborne, a proud, pampering father of an only child, Belvedere is still rampant and still funny...

Author: By Jonathan O. Swan, | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/10/1952 | See Source »

Pause in the Program. In Seattle, 48 years after falling ill with scarlet fever, State-Senator Victor Zednick attended a reunion of the Broadway High School, finally delivered the valedictorian address to the class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 24, 1951 | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

Back in Princeton, he graduated a Phi Beta Kappa and valedictorian. Grandfather had won the argument as to how the turbine was to be used; it was to be used in the law. Foster took a year at the Sorbonne and went to Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Peacemaker | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

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