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Junior is a genial, hair-triggered young man who prepped at a Cambridge (Mass.) public school and at Exeter, flashed through Harvard summa cum laude, landed a fellowship at Cambridge University, and came back to Harvard a Junior Fellow. His senior thesis on Orestes A. Brownson, a Transcendentalist who turned Catholic, was published when he was 21, sold only 2,500 copies. With the war he went to OWI in Washington, then to OSS in the ETO, ending up as a corporal in political intelligence...
Heading the list of honor students in the College were Willard Thomas Grubb, Jr. '45, who received a Summa Cum Laiste degree, and Mitchell Irs Goodman '45, Reuben, Philip Hersh '47, and Allan Johnson '47, who received Magua Cum Laiste degrees...
...Paul's School, in New Hampshire, he captained the hockey team, excelled in scholarship, debate and occasional horseplay. At Yale, he developed these talents, added new ones, worried mightily over the nation. He was graduated summa cum laude, just in time...