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- Born in
- New Orleans
- Educated at
- Harvard UniversityPembroke CollegeIsidore Newman School
- Awards
- 🏆 Benjamin Franklin Medal🏆 Rhodes Scholarship🏆 National Humanities Medal🏆 Jefferson Lecture🏆 The Nichols-Chancellor's Medal
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1952
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