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...Actor Cagney's 23-year-old Phi Beta Kappa sister (Hunter College, '38) in her first important cinerole...
...oldest and snootiest U.S. pedagogue's fraternity, Phi Delta Kappa, which for 31 years has drawn a sharp color line, manfully erased it last week. Observing that if their country's black-brown-yellow allies were good enough to die for they were good enough to live with, Phi Delta Kappans decided to admit Negroes, Chinese, et al. as fellow members...
...Delta Kappa is the No. 1 professional society of U.S. educators, with 28,000 big & little wigs as members. Ever since the fraternity wrote its constitution in 1911, restricting membership to "white males of good character," there has been wig-pulling over this clause. Two years ago the Ohio State chapter ruled that Negro George Wright and Chinese Dai Ho-chun were "white men" despite the color of their skin, admitted them as members. The chapter was promptly suspended by Phi Delta Kappa's national council...
Election of seven honorary members, and 46 Seniors to the Phi Beta Kappa honorary society has been announced by its officials. The new 1942 membership brings the total to 70, about one-tenth of the graduating class...
...honorary members elected were: Oscar J. Campbell, professor of English, Columbia University; Walter A. Gropius, professor of Architecture, Harvard; Hugh O'N. Hencken, curator of European Archeology, Harvard; Christopher La-Farge, Phi Beta Kappa poet, June, 1942; Thomas W. Lamont '92, chairman of the Executive Committee of J. P. Morgan and Company, New York City; Stephen Luce, associate editor, "American Journal of Archaeology"; and Edward A. Whitney, former associate professor of History and Literature, Harvard and member of the staff of the Huntington Library for research in Renaissance History...