Word: yalemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Novelist John Hersey (Yale '36) wrote his 15-year class report (TIME, Sept. 8), he proved one thing about Yalemen: they are successful often to the point of glamour. But what about their wives? To answer that question, the Yale Alumni Magazine commissioned Agnes Rogers, an editor of the Reader's Digest and wife of Frederick Lewis (Only Yesterday) Allen* of Harper's Magazine, to dip into the record of the class of '37. Last week, Editor Rogers submitted her report: Mrs. Yale, she found, looks less glamorous in statistics, but she has seen...
...board for the entire year in included. In precious years he could sign for 14 meals a week or 21. Of course, most fraternity men signed for 14 and ate in the fraternity men signed for 14 and ate in the fraternity seven or so times a week. Now Yalemen, like their Cambridge cousins, are paying for every meal, whether they...
...comparison, a rugged 23 per cent of the Yalemen tested showed a "high willingness" to serve in the army...
Only one man has ever been in jail; one is a single-taxer; one is a yogi ("I meditate on the foibles of a disintegrating society"). But on the whole, says Hersey, the Yalemen are "utterly dependable and respectable." They read an average of two books a month; in a year they go to twelve movies, 3.22 concerts, 4.24 plays, 1.2 art galleries, and 2.7 lectures. They drink a bit more than when they were in New Haven-an average of about 11.8 cocktails, highballs or beers a week. In the last five years they have managed to take...
Politically, the Yalemen have lagged a bit. "Our most successful politician is the man who got himself unanimously elected mayor of Dellwood, Minn., where a total of seven votes was cast." But in another field, the class of '36 has proved more enterprising. Among the books it has written: Search for the Spiny Babbler, A Pattern of Politics, Collective Bargaining and Market Control in the New York Coat and Suit Industry, Alkylaminoalkyl Esters of Aminonaphthoic Acids as Local Anesthetics-and The Wall...