TRIVIAL PURSUITS

Presidential precedents

The year 1946 stands out as one that molded men (and babies) into leaders. Test your presidential knowledge. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and married his sweetheart a month later.

2 Three future presidents were born during the summer of 1946—the first year of the baby boom. Who are they?

3 The Navy gave this former Eagle Scout (pictured) an honorable discharge on Feb. 23. 4 The Screen Actors Guild asked him (then its third vice president) to mediate a dispute between unions.

5 He started a political dynasty by winning his first election: a congressional seat in Massachusetts.

6 Hailed as a WWII hero, this Army chief of staff became a permanent five-star general. 7 An economics major at Yale in 1946, this former Navy pilot graduated Phi Beta Kappa in just 21⁄2 years.

8 Money he won playing poker in the Navy during WWII helped fund his 1946 California congressional campaign.