Higher Education and Marriage
Lilienthal attended DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1920. There he joined Delta Upsilon social fraternity and was elected president of the student body. Active in forensics, he won a state oratorical contest in 1918. He also gained distinction as a light heavyweight boxer. At DePauw Lilienthal met his future wife, Helen Marian Lamb (1896-1999), a fellow student who was born in Oklahoma and moved with her family to Crawfordsville, Indiana, in 1913. They were married in Crawfordsville in 1923.
After a summer job in 1920 as a reporter for the Mattoon, Illinois, Daily Journal-Gazette, Lilienthal entered Harvard Law School. Although his grades were only average until his third and final year at Harvard, he acquired a very important mentor there in Professor Felix Frankfurter, later an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.
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