Word: kappas
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Born in San Francisco, Bob McNamara was a rare sophomore Phi Beta Kappa scholar at the University of California at Berkeley. He took a master's degree at Harvard Business School, then after a stint at Price, Waterhouse, went back to Harvard as an assistant professor for three years until the war. Though McNamara is perhaps the prize Whiz Kid, all six of the original group still with Ford have worked their way up to key executive posts. FORD'S new president is usually at his desk by 7:30 a.m., when most of his staff is just...
Like most of G.M.'s executives, he is a product of the Middle West, where his father was an accountant in the small town of Three Oaks, Mich. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in business administration and a Phi Beta Kappa key, worked briefly for a Chicago accounting firm, joined General Motors' New York staff as an accountant in 1926. His quick grasp of figures and his lucid speech propelled him quickly upward. In 1941, at 38, he became one of the youngest G.M. executives ever to reach a vice-presidency...
...metropolitan-daily editor in the U.S. He is 26, an age at which many journalists are still writing obits or patrolling the police beat. Editor Evans has never written an obituary or chased an ambulance. Gifted and earnest, Stan Evans is a product of Yale ('55, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude). In college he fell in with a group of students that called itself "The Inter-Collegiate Society of Individualists." In this company Evans studied the record of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy, decided that McCarthy "was in the main correct...
...erratic player who, at her scrambling best, is the most exciting female golfer in the world, she was last year's leading money winner (with a record $26,760) on the women's tour, has been a topflight pro ever since she graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors from the University of Texas in 1950. Taut and moody on the golf course, Betsy lugs a portable phonograph with her on the tour, relaxes between rounds with Wagnerian opera. This season, Betsy had been in a frustrating slump, had won only two major tournaments prior to the Open...
...hard-up Nebraska farmer and a schoolteacher mother, Walter Judd earned his way through the University of Nebraska as a dishwiper. got a Phi Beta Kappa and an M.D. ('23). Young Dr. Judd then sailed to China as a medical missionary for the Congregational Church, was almost killed by malaria and by Communist rebels. He came back to the U.S. in 1938 to preach of the peril of Japanese expansion, made 1,400 speeches in two years urging the U.S. to stop sending war supplies to the Japanese. "I spent my time taking American scrap out of Chinese...