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...Eastman Kodak Co., President Thomas J. Hargrave moved up to chairman of the board, the youngest chairman (60) in Eastman history, when Perley S. Wilcox, 77, retired. Into the presidency went Albert K. Chapman, 62, a Phi Beta Kappa from Ohio State University who joined the company after a stint with the Army in 1919. Chapman organized the company's development department, moved up through manufacturing to vice president and, in 1943, to general manager and a director of the company. ¶ Charles Fabian Herman Johnson Jr., 45, was elected president of Botany Mills, Inc., to succeed his father...
...Thurber Album has some fine stuff about his city editor on the Columbus Dispatch. He disliked college men, contemptuously called Thurber "Phi Beta Kappa" (which he was), and could intone it "so that it sounded like a Girl Scout's merit badge." He came to like Thurber, but he never liked fancy writing, which he always greeted with "This story is in bloom!" Other good men well remembered are Cartoonist Billy Ireland (a man so kind he once complimented a friend's wife with "Edna, that's the prettiest washing out there I ever saw"), several profs...
...Grad" interested me. As an Indiana University senior, I find that I am: 1) a social science major; 2) a Phi Beta Kappa; 3) in four extracurricular activities; and 4) working my way through school. Am I doomed to dismal failure...
Providing a year of study in a French university, the Augustus Clifford Tower Fellowship has been awarded to Isaac Thomas, Jr., of Pottstown, Penna., and Lowell House. A music major, Thomas is a member of the Music Club and has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa...
Richard Sheldon Palais, of Brookline and Kirkland House. Majoring in mathematics, last year Palais was one of eight juniors elected to Phi Beta Kappa...