Sworn in last week as the junior U.S. Senator from Wisconsin: Edward William Proxmire, 41.
Early Life: Born in Lake Forest, Ill., son of a wealthy physician and Republican, he went to Hill Preparatory School in Pottstown, Pa., where his classmates voted him "biggest grind,'' and to Yale University (.'38), where he got his letter for boxing and football (end), though he had earlier won the unhappy practice-session distinction of dropping ten straight forward passes from Yale's All-America Clint Frank. He got a master's degree (1940) and a liberal bent from Harvard Business School ("I didn't raise my boy to be a...
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