Word: kappa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening move in a campaign to eliminate racial distinction from the Phi Delta Kappa fraternity, a prominent Negro speaker has been invited to address a meeting of the Harvard chapter next Thursday night...
...Sorbonne at one time or another-is indeed the antithesis of Ring Lardner's celebrated boneheads. A charter member of the Linguistic Society of America, he speaks seven languages-excluding Brooklynese, which he picked up when, fresh from the Princeton campus and trying to hide his Phi Beta Kappa key, he played shortstop for the Dodgers...
...Beta Kappa at Yale, where he made money by advertising "Tutoring Classes de Luxe," Richard became head of the Philadelphia store at the age of 30, boasts that he pulled it out of a $1,700,000 deficit in three years. But he also started quarreling with Bernard. When he fired his merchandise manager, a Bernard appointee, there was a great public row, and the board fired Richard. He then went into business in Florida, and is now a U.S. Army captain (aged 43) in Washington...
Died. William Grigsby McCormick, 90, retired Chicago banker, son of the late William S. McCormick, partner of the giant reaper company; near Wheaton, Ill. When he was a student at the University of Virginia he co-founded Kappa Sigma fraternity, now one of the country's four largest...
...City Editor Robert Morton Lee (now dead) and Managing Editor Edward Scott Beck (now on the shelf). Under them the Tribune staff once included such names as Westbrook Pegler, Percy Hammond, Ring Lardner, Burton Rascoe. Present Managing Editor Pat Maloney, who flew with Rickenbacker and wears a Phi Beta Kappa key from Dartmouth, is a hard worker who got his training under Beck and Lee but lacks their independent thinking...