Big Picture: Not Just a Face in the Crowd

Budd Schulberg ’36 joined the Communist Party, earned membership into the Boxing Hall of Fame, feuded with John Wayne and Ernest Hemingway, and was with Sen. Robert F. Kennedy when the presidential candidate was assassinated in 1968. But he was best known as Dartmouth’s most prolific screenwriter, earning an Oscar for his screenplay for the 1954 Marlon Brando film, On the Waterfront. Schulberg died in August at age 95. (From left, collecting their Waterfront Oscars: Schulberg, director Elia Kazan, cinematographer Boris Kaufman and art director Richard Day.)