Monday, Jun. 30, 1941

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, Princeton, Hope College (Mich.).

> This year's champions (four degrees):

Chinese Ambassador Hu Shih : Dickinson, Middlebury, Lake Forest College (Ill.), McGill University (Canada).

New York Times Reporter Anne O'Hare McCormick: N.Y.U., Columbia, Ohio State, Rollins College.

Wendell Willkie: Yale, Dartmouth, Stevens Institute, Bowdoin.

> Still far in the lead as long-term kudos champion is Herbert Hoover, who last fortnight got his 52nd honorary degree (LL.D.) from Haverford (Friends) College.

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