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Although the undergraduate remains the School's central concern, a new program was devised after the War for graduates interested in public administration. Unlike the college program, the graduate division has competitors: the Fletcher School of Diplomacy at Tufts, Harvard's Littauer Center of Public Administration, and Georgetown University in Washington...
...Georgetown University's courtly Tibor Kerekes (pronounced Care-a-kesh), 66, professor of European history, whose 32 hugely popular years in Washington have been a mere second act to an already crowded career in the maelstrom of World War I Europe. Budapest-born, Kerekes was a Hungarian cavalryman on the Russian front (he later lost an arm), became tutor to the Habsburg family in 1917 and claims he is the only living person who knows the ''true story" of the tragedy at Mayerling. Emigrating to the U.S., he tried orange growing in Florida, wound...
Pete Quesada got into aviation in 1924, when he left Georgetown University to join the Army Air Service, moved slowly up through the ranks until World War II, when he became a major general. He distinguished himself as a combat commander in Europe and Africa, personally flew General Eisenhower over the D-day beachhead. Later he commanded the joint task force in the first H-bomb tests at Eniwetok. Atoll in 1951. After a brief hitch as head of Lockheed Aircraft's missile division, he returned to Washington...
...Bodenheimer '59, of Eliot House and Salt Lake City, Utah, Peter P. Brooks '59, of Eliot House and New Canaan, Ct., David O. Carpenter '59 of Winthrop House and Granada, Minn., Michael J. Chamberlin '59, of Kirkland House and Honolulu, Hawaii, Glenn W. Clark '56, of Winthrop House and Georgetown, Idaho, and John P. Demos '59, of Lowell House and Cambridge...
...People in Love." How the son of General Sherman, a nondenominational Protestant who believed in "truth," came to be a Jesuit spellbinder is told in this fascinating biography by Joseph T. Durkin, himself a Jesuit and professor of American history at Georgetown University. Tom Sherman, born in 1856, was brought up in St. Louis and Washington amid his father's legend, but his Catholic mother, Ellen Ewing Sherman, probably had the greater influence. Tom went to Yale, studied law at St. Louis' Washington University, then abruptly informed his father that he was about to enter the Jesuit novitiate...