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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These two measures are part of a program of revived activity planned by Phi Beta Kappa. The group also intends to revive its custom of annually publishing a specially chosen honors thesis, he stated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBK Projects Advice Center For Freshmen | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...Beta Kappa Society has offered to set up a system of supplementary freshman advising to be run by upperclassmen, Roy F. Gootenberg '49, secretary of the group announced last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBK Projects Advice Center For Freshmen | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Marquand still becomes choleric when he thinks of the stuff he wrote. "It seemed to me the most dreadful thing to end your days putting your energy into a campaign for Lifebuoy Soap-and all those Phi Beta Kappas sitting around trying to get ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spruce Street Boy | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

Last week, two Johns Hopkins physicians, Drs. Leslie N. Gay and Paul Carliner, announced a new remedy which seemed to work. It was a drug called Dramamine (full name: beta-dimethyla-minoethyl benzohydryl ether 8-chlorothe-ophyllinate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Steady, Mates | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Actually, for all his old-worldliness, Medina was raised in Brooklyn, was called a "greaser" at public school because his father was Mexican (his mother is a D.A.R. of Dutch descent). He made the water-polo team and Phi Beta Kappa at Princeton, and was earning $100,000 a year as a lawyer before President Truman appointed him to the federal bench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: I Tell You ... Stop It! | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

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