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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Earnest Socialist. To reach this eminence, Strunsky had to master a language not his own. The Strunskys came to New York's lower East Side from Vitebsk, Russia, when Simeon was seven. At 17, Strunsky won a scholarship to Columbia University, made Phi Beta Kappa, was an earnest Socialist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Is That So? | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...appetite for action. He was the youngest Eagle Scout in New Jersey (and won a trip to Europe with the qualifying merit badge). At Rutgers, he was varsity quarterback, lacrosse letterman, diver on the swimming team, middleweight boxing champion, a fair musician, and a near miss at Phi Beta Kappa. When Rudy Vallee was king of the crooners, Ozzie was a topflight bandleader. Last week, at 41, he was still riding high. His husband-&-wife program (CBS, Fri. 9:30 p.m., E.S.T.) was the best in its category, with a 10.5 Hooperating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Full Nelson | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...first time in years. The heartening aroma of burning mortgages drifts up from Fraternity Rows all over the nation. At the University of California at Los Angeles, the Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter was 13 years ahead on its mortgage payments. The University of Southern California's Phi Kappa Psis had just dedicated a new $120,000 house. University of Michigan fraternities were overflowing into nearby rooming-house "annexes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Boom on Fraternity Row | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...short, heavy-set Harvard alumnus with gray hair and a Phi Beta Kappa key has been spoon-feeding me History 32a for a little over a month new. He is a professional tutor...

Author: By David G. Breaten, | Title: Pro Tutor 'Good Deal' for Student Willing to Spend Money, Not Time | 1/15/1948 | See Source »

...impresses some people," he said deprecatingly, when I pointed to the Phi Beta Kappa key attached to the chain of a fancy Swiss pocket watch he kept lying on the desk to time our progress through History 32. "It's what a man knows that counts, not just the marks he can get"--a rather starting bit of philosophy to hear from a professional tutor. When I read him a list of six topics which Professor Ropp had given out as probable exam questions, Cramer said, "We don't want to aim for any particular topics. This man Ropp fooled...

Author: By David G. Breaten, | Title: Pro Tutor 'Good Deal' for Student Willing to Spend Money, Not Time | 1/15/1948 | See Source »

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