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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Handsome, tall (6 ft. 3 in.) John Morrow, a Negro,* proved himself a relaxed, suave diplomat in knowledgeable answers to the committee's polite questions, impressed members with a pin-striped academic pedigree. He holds a B.A. from Rutgers University (Phi Beta Kappa,'31), M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, Certificat Avancé from France's Sorbonne, has a scholar's command of Latin, French and Spanish and a reading knowledge of German and Portuguese. Now head of the modern language department in North Carolina College at Durham, he is a slave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Good Experience | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Members of Phi Beta Kappa have elected 79 graduating Seniors. The new members include...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phi Beta Kappa Elects 79 Seniors To Membership in Honorary Group | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

Eight outstanding alumni were elected to the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa yesterday for their achievements in education, business, law, and letters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eight Alumni Elected To Phi Beta Kappa At Annual Meeting | 6/9/1959 | See Source »

...Henry A. Murray, professor of Clinical Psychology, highlighted the annual Phi Beta Kappa Society exercises yesterday, calling for "a new testament for a new age." Murray delivered the keynote oration before an audience of about a hundred members of the society and their guests in Sanders Theater...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Murray Asks For 'New Mythology' | 6/9/1959 | See Source »

Disappointing Date. Throughout his schooling, Halleck was an honor student and front runner. At Indiana University he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, was student-union president in his senior year. But he was so busy gathering garlands that he made few campus friends. Recalls a classmate: "Friendship takes time-and Charlie didn't have time." Always, he thought of his future, to the point where a coed returned from her first date with Halleck complaining of that strange lad who "spent all night talking about how he was going to be President." Halleck never got another date with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Gut Fighter | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

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