Kudos

U.S. colleges continued to honor a variety of professions and accomplishments. Among the recipients of honorary degrees last week:

American University

Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

LL.D.

Boston University

Marian Anderson, Negro concert and opera singer, onetime U.S. delegate to the United Nations

Mus.D.

Carl Mydans, LIFE Magazine photographer

HH.D.

Brown University

Felix Frankfurter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice

LL.D.

Colby College

Norman Dello Joio, song and opera composer

Mus.D.

Georgetown University

John L. Lewis, president, United Mine Workers of America

L.H.D.

Goucher College

Margaret Mead, anthropologist, sociologist

LL.D.

Citation: "If college students know more than they used to about the methods and findings of anthropology, Margaret Mead is largely responsible for this fact."

Marianne Moore, poet

Litt.D.

Michigan State University

Harry S. Truman

LL.D.

Charles Bohlen, diplomat, Soviet expert

LL.D.

New York University

Jaime Benitez, chancellor, University of Puerto Rico

LL.D.

Robert D. Murphy, diplomat, onetime Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs

LL.D.

Citation: "From the lowest office apprenticeship to the highest ambassadorial portfolio, he has helped shape our external affairs through the tumultuous transition from political isolation to global immersion."

Northwestern University

James Van Allen, physicist

Sc.D.

Agnes de Mille, choreographer

D.F.A.

Swarthmore College

Milton Eisenhower, president, Johns Hopkins University

Litt.D.

University of California (Berkeley) Joseph Russell Knowland, publisher,

Oakland Tribune

LL.D.

James William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

LL.D.

University of Michigan

Sir Geoffrey Crowther, managing director, the Economist

LL.D.

University of North Carolina

Lenoir Chambers, editor, Norfolk Virginian-Pilot

LL.D.

Citation: "IHe] has continued to exert a salutary influence on the upper South through his forward-looking policies expressed in scholarly and humane editorials . . ."

University of Southern California

Edward Teller, physicist

Sc.D.

James Albert Pike, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of California

LL.D.

Utah State University

Ardeshir Zahedi, Iranian Ambassador to the U.S

LL.D.

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