Youth: The Wide, Wide World of Walter Winshall

One thing about Walter Winshall is that he does like to keep busy. Son of a Detroit dentist, he graduated from high school after winning a National Merit Scholarship and enrolled at 16 in an electrical-engineering course at Cambridge's Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There he was an editor of the student weekly, played intercollegiate freshman hockey, participated in intramural football and softball, was rushing chairman of his fraternity, played a nice game of bridge, invested in the stock market, dated lots of girls (sometimes two in the same night), graduated in 1964 with a B average, and enrolled in Harvard...

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