Word: alphas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greater New York's four $150,000 winners last week, most erudite was a 38-year-old, $2,400-a-year City College psychology instructor named Walter Vogt, whose ticket was signed "Alpha Omega." When reporters arrived to congratulate him on his good fortune, Psychologist Vogt ran upstairs, crawled out on a fire escape, announced he was going for a nickel ride on the subway. Most elusive winner was Betty Fitzgerald, switchboard operator for an importing company whose telephone service was disrupted by reporters whom Operator Fitzgerald refused to see in person. Shaggiest winners were a Mr. & Mrs. John...
...Prince Alpha," a disconnected and disjointed babble from the pen of a visionary Freshman, Harry Brown, rambles on for four long pages to come at last to the greatly enlightening closing statement, "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, I'm coming to be a man . . . " Jeffrey Fuller '38 contributes a well-written book review in the form of an essay, on Ernest J. Simmons' newly published work, "Pushkin." The article discusses the book from the point of view of its own content, and contains a criticism of Pushkin himself...
...brown suit that was tight like a drum. But I don't seem to be able to do much about my weight. It goes up and down, just like an accordian, depending on how much I eat, and I eat a lot." Mrs. Armstrong, whom Louis says everyone calls "Alpha", a good-looking and trim young woman who sat in the dressing room throughout the interview, seemed to think this discussion of Louis' figure very amusing, and her final comment was "Oh, he's hopeless...
Besides a look at some typical co-ed faces, the country was last week afforded a look into contemporary undergraduate heads, through the eyes of young Elizabeth Eldridge, of San Antonio, Tex. Miss Eldridge is national dean of Alpha Epsilon Phi Sorority. AEφ is for Jewish girls only, but Dean Eldridge felt qualified by her travels to many campuses throughout the land to write in the Saturday Evening Post...
...Yale presidents and has been Yale royalty from his youth. That did not keep him from taking a B. A. degree at Cambridge before he entered Yale's Class of 1908. He managed the freshman and varsity crews, belonged to Skull and Bones and a good fraternity (Alpha Delta Phi), became a history instructor three years after graduation. He was a full professor by 1919, when Woodrow Wilson drafted him for the Paris Peace Conference. He headed the U. S. Commission's Austro-Hungarian division and returned to Yale full of glory. When the University's Grand...