Word: beta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beta Kappa announced this weekend the election of eight University juniors...
Fearful that his show may be taken over by exhibitionists, Nelson makes every effort to select the soundest applicants from his flood of mail. During the six years that the show has been on radio & TV, the grooms have included an executive of Douglas Aircraft Co., a Phi Beta Kappa from Western Reserve, an atomic scientist and Nelson's own brother-in-law. This week one of the grooms was Jacklyn Lucas, 24, who as a 17-year-old Marine corporal on Iwo Jima was the youngest man ever to win the Medal of Honor...
...cancer of the thyroid. Then his doctor got him into the little (30-bed) hospital at Oak Ridge, Tenn., which is set aside for atomic medicine. There, Norman had an "atomic cocktail"-radioactive sodium iodide dissolved in water. The cancer colonies soaked up the iodine; from each radioactive atom, beta particles and gamma rays shot out to destroy cancerous cells. Norman goes back to Oak Ridge regularly for checkups, and sometimes he gets another radioactive drink. He eats well and has gained 30 pounds...
College grades make some difference, "but hardly enough ... to inspire anyone to burn the midnight oil." Of the male A students, half are in the over-$5,000 bracket; but 41% of the C and D people are in it, too. In the learned (and lowpaying) professions, the Phi Beta Kappa's advantage is greatest: he is twice as likely to be making over $5,000 as his C or D counterpart. In business, his advantage dwindles to almost nothing...
...Beta Kappa announced the election of five Radcliffe juniors last night. They include Nancy Barrow of Manhasset, New York and Bertram Hall, majoring in Government: Margaret S. Bryan of Cambridge, majoring in Biology: Ina Low Feldman of Brington, majorine in History and Literature: Majorie J. Hill of Troy. New York and Barnard Hall, majoring in Romance Philology; and Catherine Rubino of Port Chester, New York and Cambridge, majoring in English...