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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