Word: beta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent writer for the American Legion's monthly magazine fears that an article by National Commander Earl Cocke, Jr. was too subtle for Legion members. There was some question whether readers would recognize their commander's references to "pastel mink coats, Phi Beta Kappa keys, and deference to the British Foreign Office." In answer to this call for help from the ranks, "American Legion" has taken off its kid gloves...
...began with his birth in Topeka, Kans. 52 years ago. Then he recalled the University of Colorado, where he made Phi Beta Kappa, Johns Hopkins, where he took his M.D., interned, and won a prized Carnegie fellowship in embryology. In the '30s, he built up a good practice in Manhattan, where he was on the staff of three hospitals. His marriage (childless) ended in divorce in 1942. That year he moved to Greenwich...
...father, a Cambridge policeman all his life, once asked me, 'Why leave Cambridge when anything anyone could possibly ever want is right here?" Mayor Edward A. Crane '35, magna cum laude and senior Phi Beta Kappa, has followed this advice ever since. "I'm a native Cantabridgian, always will be. I was born on Center Street in 1914 and when I married, I finally moved--to the other end of the street...
Cramer began his "career in teaching" shortly after he graduated from the college, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1930. He established himself as a partner in the Parker-Cramer Tutoring School and continued to take part in an operation involving 60 percent of the College...
...Lovett was born in Texas, the son of Robert Scott Lovett, general counsel and then president of Union Pacific. Young Bob left Yale (Phi Beta Kappa, Skull & Bones) during his third year to go overseas with the Yale Unit in the naval air force. In France he flew the lumbering British Handley Pages on some of the first night glide-bombing attacks, made a careful study of dive-bombing tactics which amazed his friends and delighted the Navy brass. The unit's historian summed up Lieut. Lovett in three words: "Observation, reflection, deduction-and there you were...