Word: beta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President, has had his share of TIME mentions-as "a bright young man" (Jan 8, 1934), "a socially conscientious progressive" (June 28, 1937), a "topflight layman" of the Episcopal Church (Dec. 8, 1941), etc. Many a reader will recall hearing of Charlie Taft as a Phi Beta Kappa football and basketball star at Yale, a World War I veteran (first lieutenant), the father of seven children, a 7-handicap golfer, a onetime Landon brain-truster, a personable Cincinnati lawyer, and the possessor of a typical Taft dimple as well as his father's ability to make friends and have...
Bombing Miracles. Pipe-smoking Arizona-born Dan De Luce, 32, worked a 48-hour week in A.P.'s Los Angeles bureau while attending University of California at Los Angeles. He graduated (Phi Beta Kappa) in 1934, soon set out on the kind of career newsmen dream about. He was in the Balkans with his handsome wife when Germany invaded Poland. From Lwow he sent one of the war's first air-raid eyewitness dispatches: "As I write . . . 21 German bombers are raining heavy bombs. . . . The table under my hand is shaking like something alive. If [the hotel] holds...
Squab & Turkey. At noon he was back at the University Club, this time in the lounge on the second floor, to be greeted by members of Beta Theta Pi, his college fraternity, and members of the Los Angeles Big Ten Club. They called for a speech. He climbed onto a settee and left no doubt that he was ad dressing them as a candidate for the Presidency. Then he spent 20 minutes shaking hands...
...addition to the announcement of the men who were elected to Phi Beta Kappa Monday, four Juniors were also selected. They were Borden F. Beck, Redmond, Oregon, graduate of Redmond Union High School but now in the Army; Warren Bennett, Dorchester, Boston Latin School, member of the Army Medical Reserve; Kenneth M. Case, New York City, Fieldston School and still at Harvard; and Ernest J. Dieterich, Akron, Ohio, Western Reserve Academy, also at College...
Officials of the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Society last night announced the election of 16 new members to the Undergraduate Chapter...