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Each man stands to lose more than his liberty. Ed Roman, the "A" student from C.C.N.Y., is a long way from wearing the Phi Beta Kappa key that he had almost won; gangling Sherman White, the best college basketball player in the U.S., is never likely to land the rich postgraduate contract with the pros that might have earned him up to $100,000. All had tarred themselves with a disgrace that is likely to dog them through their lives. In individual gestures of contrition, the boys dredged up payoff money from clothes and shoeboxes, turned it over...
Thus young (33), brilliant (Phi Beta Kappa), Dartmouth-trained Bill Remington was publicly and legally branded a liar for saying that he had never been a Communist. He was convicted for perjury, but even graver was the implication that he had passed on to fellow Communists secret information to which he had access when he was working for the WPB. Remington was whisked off to jail for the night. Next day, pale but calm, he stood before Judge Noonan and received the maximum sentence for perjury: five years in jail and a $2,000 fine...
...Beta Kappa economist from the University of Arizona, McCormick joined the fledgling SEC in 1934 as a $1,900 analyst. He moved up in the New Deal hierarchy and set his heart on becoming a commissioner. In 1949, President Truman gave him what he wanted (TIME...
...source close to the committee explained that the problem is not one of subsidizing athletics but rather one of explaining to schools that Harvard is not a place "full of millionaires with Phi Beta Kappa keys...
Hawkins, who graduated from Walpole High School, is a student of English Literature. During his junior year he was one of the eight members of his class elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He is a member of the Signet Society, the Dramatic Club, and the Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770. He is also president of the Art Association...