Word: beta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...waiter, sold magazine subscriptions. On the side he was a night clerk in a branch post office. Summers he lectured on French Symbolist poets and once translated Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's Ecce Homo. He aver aged $1,000 a year and earned, in addition, a Phi Beta Kappa...
What was he? He was a lot of things: a Yale Phi Beta Kappa, a Columbia L.L.B., a first lieutenant in World War I's A.E.F., now an assistant district attorney of the State of New York-the information Francis Ellis Rivers put down in applying for membership in the American Bar Association was more than adequate...
After the carpetbag era, the family moved to Manhattan. Young Bernie went to City College, acquired a Phi Beta Kappa key, a reputation as an amateur boxer and ballplayer, and a deaf left ear as the result of a blow with a baseball bat. That deaf ear kept him out of West Point, his first choice for a career; and it has also enabled him, at crucial times, to hear only the questions he cares to answer...
...Southern California's Phi Beta Kappa student Setsuko Matsunaga, now at Washington University in St. Louis. Miss Matsunaga studies sociology, has addressed civic and church groups in the St. Louis area...
...Beta Kappa Society will hold its annual Commencement program on Wednesday, May 26, at 11 o'clock, in the Large Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum. The meeting will be open to the public, and tickets may be obtained for reserved seats from Reginald H. Phelps '30, Assistant Dean in charge of records and Corresponding Secretary of the Society...