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White Light. The game generates considerable campus excitement and is played by a radio hookup between the competing schools and Quizmaster Allen Ludden in Manhattan. Ludden, a 37-year-old Phi Beta Kappa from Texas, first throws out a "tossup" question; as soon as a player thinks he knows the answer he signals his referee to push the team's buzzer, which instantly lights a bulb in the Manhattan studio (white for the champion team, red for the challenger) and automatically cuts off the impulse from the other team. If the answer is right, it earns ten points...
...decision came in the case of Mrs. Doris Brin Walker, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of California School of Jurisprudence, who quit practicing law in 1946 and got a job as a clerk in the Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, manufacturers of antibiotics and serums. Three years later, after the management discovered that she was a Communist, she was fired...
Last week, as the association report went out just before his formal installation, President Elkins, a Rhodes scholar and Phi Beta Kappa, promised to do his best to meet the association's requirements by 1956. If the General Assembly only gives him enough money, said he, "there is little doubt that this purpose will be accomplished...
...Dartmouth Phi Beta Kappa whose brain seethes with slogans, ideas and erudite remembrances, Weaver was a zooming success in the advertising business. For one thing, he not only could get along with American Tobacco's late, volcanically eccentric George Washington Hill, but he could even argue with...
...prepared at Phillips Exeter Academy and received his B.A. from Oxford University in 1926 and his master's degree from the same university in 1930. He holds a B.D. degree from Union and a D.D. from the Divinity School of the Pacific. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa...