Education: Kudos Champions

Returns in the annual kudos sweepstakes last week:

> Connie Mack, 78-year-old manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, whose formal schooling stopped in high school, was made a Doctor of Physical Education by Pennsylvania Military College.

> Jasper McLevy, long-time Socialist Mayor of Bridgeport, Conn., who never finished high school, was made a Doctor of Municipal Administration by Wesleyan.

> Runners-up for the kudos championship, with three honorary degrees apiece : Radio Pundit Raymond Gram Swing : Lafayette, Muhlenberg, Williams.

British Ambassador Lord Halifax: Columbia, Yale, Harvard (see above).

The Netherlands' Crown Princess Juliana: Mount Holyoke,...

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