Word: beta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hands. Last week CQ celebrated its tenth anniversary, it got its first publisher. The man who will fill the new position is 51-year-old Buel Fellows Weare, a Princeton Phi Beta Kappa (1925), onetime manager of the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate, later boss of the T rib's European edition, and, most recently, assistant to the publisher. Weare's job, as outlined by CQ's Owners and Co-Editors Nelson and Henrietta Poynter: to add quantity to CQ's quality circulation...
Cinemactor Franchot Tone, 49, whose Phi Beta Kappa key failed to ward off the rude fisticuffs of husky Cinemug Tom Neal in their brawl over the fickle favors of Cineminx Barbara Payton three years ago, settled out of court with Lloyds of London, accepted $17,500 insurance for his clobbering. In reply to Tone's original $63,666,66 suit, Lloyds claimed, in effect, that he had displayed indiscreet valor by provoking Neal, then by sticking his hitherto unmarred face in the way of Big Tom's flying knuckles...
...Beta Kappa Society also announced yesterday the election of the following 80 members from the Class...
...newly-elected honorary members of Phi Beta Kappa...
John Lincoln Sweeney, Curator of the Farnsworth and Poetry Rooms in Lamont Library, Phi Beta Kappa Poet...