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...abbot in 1935 there were 72 brethren at Gethsemani; today there are 151. Trappists in the U.S. total 275. Most men who enter are quite young (15 to 20). The Order does not normally draw professional men, but Superior Mary James Fox (Harvard '18, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), who entered the Order 17 years ago, worked for the U.S. Treasury, after Naval service during World War I. "I was all ready to become a millionaire," he says, "when I felt a force turning me the other...
...direct contrast to the brothers Carney, Harvard makes the first time these two have been together during their naval career, Ted going to UCLA V-12, and NSD Oakland for temporary duty, and Bill heading inland to Colorado Springs' famed Colorado College for two semesters. They are both Stanford Kappa Sigs...
...unsporting ideas. A dozen players are 4Fs; one is an ex-sailor who survived two sinkings and 14 days in an open boat. Unique among pro footballers is Danny Fortmann of Colgate, a crack guard for the Bears. He is the League's sole Phi Beta Kappa...
...Princeton, NJ. His father, a run away slave in his youth, was a deeply respected, deep-voiced Presbyterian minister ("When people talk about my voice," say Robeson, "I wish they could have heard my father preach"). Entering Rutgers on a scholarship, Paul wound up in Phi Beta Kappa and a four-letter man. In football he was twice chosen by Walter Camp as All-America end-"the greatest defensive end," said Camp, "that ever trod the gridiron...
...President, has had his share of TIME mentions-as "a bright young man" (Jan 8, 1934), "a socially conscientious progressive" (June 28, 1937), a "topflight layman" of the Episcopal Church (Dec. 8, 1941), etc. Many a reader will recall hearing of Charlie Taft as a Phi Beta Kappa football and basketball star at Yale, a World War I veteran (first lieutenant), the father of seven children, a 7-handicap golfer, a onetime Landon brain-truster, a personable Cincinnati lawyer, and the possessor of a typical Taft dimple as well as his father's ability to make friends and have...