Word: kappas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wood, who represented the rare combination of All-America athlete and Phi Beta Kappa student, was captain of Harvard's football team when he made the cover. Another TIME story a year later showed that he was doing more than just passing and running with the ball on the football field. With the help of his teammates, who smeared pin-pricked drops of their blood onto slides during the games, Wood was measuring the effect of exercise on white corpuscles in the blood...
...with Senator Lister Hill and Governor Gordon Persons in a fight to insure that that dilemma would never again horn in on Alabama. The yeoman work was done by Lister Hill. Junior Senator Sparkman, whose rudimentary personal "machine" consisted largely of north Alabama farmers and his brothers of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, led the fight against the Dixiecrats in the "loyalist" northern section of the state. Hill, whose personal following was tremendous, carried the ball in southern Alabama, a Dixiecrat stronghold. By January of this year the two Senators had purged the state Democratic organization of Dixiecrats...
Most of his time at College was spent in the Chemistry labs, where he had little trouble in doing all the required work and some original research besides. He made Phi Beta Kappa, graduated in three years, and was an active editor of the CRIMSON all the while. In those days the paper did not run by-lined stories and consequently it is difficult to assess exactly what he contributed, but one remembrance of his days as Assistant Managing Editor still remains in the form of a framed page from the AME's Report Book of the year...
...Beta Kappa officials yesterday announced the election of six honorary members. They...
...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...