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By the time he graduated, Louis Johnson had been three-time president of the law school, vice president of the oldest university Y.M.C.A. in the nation, secretary-treasurer of the Civic Club. He was also a crack debater, and a good athlete (boxing and wrestling). To the despair of some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Master of the Pentagon | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

The Coolidge prize is awarded each year to the top Harvard debater. The six finalists will argue two days before the triangle debate in the Coolidge Contest. The best individual speaker will receive the cash prize.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debaters Select Six to Meet Yale and Princeton May 13 | 4/30/1949 | See Source »

A spindly, freckle-faced kid with a wide grin, Hubert Jr. was his high school's prize debater, came out second in the state's regional tournament. That was in 1929 and Hubert was 18.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Education of a Senator | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

A ponderous, prolix debater, with an edgy temper and a taste for snappy double-breasted suits, Scott Lucas likes to describe himself as just another Midwestern farm boy. He is also a smalltown lawyer (in Havana, Ill.; pop. 3,999), an ex-professional baseball player (in the Three-Eye League...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Party Man | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

Lewis, the son of a Methodist minister who had been born a slave, came to the Harvard Law School in 1893 after a highly successful career as an athlete, scholar, and debater at Amherst. Under the eligibility rules of that time he was able to continue playing football at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Negro Grid Star Of 1892-93 Dies | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

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