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Princeton's Valedictorian Frederic Kreisler, 21, a summa cum laude major in medieval history with a four-year average of A+, is a nephew of Violinist Fritz Kreisler, and himself an accomplished pianist. One professor calls him "intellectually and personally the most outstanding boy I ever met at Princeton." Fluent in French and German, he was top man at Pelham (N.Y.) Memorial High School, top freshman at Princeton, made Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year and won a Carnegie grant for summer research at the University of Vienna on his thesis. "The Coronation of Charlemagne" (grade: A+). Known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Top of the Heap | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

...often in residence at the embassy during vacations, and naturally enough, fell in with the Rt. Hon. David Ormsby-Gore. Young Ormsby-Gore was not only heir to the title of his father. Lord Harlech, a Shropshire landowner and onetime chairman of the Mid land Bank, but also nephew of Tory Kingmaker Lord Salisbury. "We were just young people going around together." says Ormsby-Gore. Then Jack Kennedy's kid sister Kathleen ("Kick") up and married Ormsby-Gore's first cousin, the Marquess of Hartington. The marquess was killed in World War II and Kathleen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: HOW TO BECOME AMBASSADOR TO THE U.S. | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

Despair & Humor. Walker Percy, 44, is the nephew of William Alexander Percy, who wrote Lanterns on the Levee, one of this century's most readable books about the South, and something of value clearly has rubbed off onto the younger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two True Sounds from Dixie | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...grand days of the Empire, Hollywood's relation to Art was that of an indulgent but faintly contemptuous uncle. Now, in the parlous years of the Republic, the relation is altered: Art is the uncle, and Hollywood is the loving, overindulged nephew. But family conversations are still fascinating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Grafia Artis | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

...assault on Biblical history. Find Israel's first army for me, he told an assembly of his country's leading archaeologists. Dig up the remains of Abraham's band of 318 men who pulled off a nighttime pincer attack at Dan and freed Abraham's nephew Lot from Chedorlaomer, King of the Elamites (Genesis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

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