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...Bodo" Athanassiades, the $17 million contract was all part of a day's work. At 60, he is Greece's top tycoon (worth anywhere up to $80 million). His enterprises run from alpha (for ammunition) to omega (for ore); he is the biggest Greek producer of chemicals, glass, minerals, munitions and wines. Bodo runs, in addition, a string of shipyards, fertilizer and textile plants scattered from Thrace to Crete. His payroll of 14,000 workers gives employment to 8% of Greece's manufacturing work force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Olympian Tycoon | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

Ryan, whose home is in Savanna, Illinois, is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Med School Senior Wins Prize For Hormone Treatment Study | 2/16/1952 | See Source »

Despite its suggestive title and an unusually fraudulent advertising campaign. For Men Only is the relatively straight story of a college fraternity--Omega Nu. As such it marks the first half-way honest attempt to illustrate some ridiculous and sadistic aspects of fraternity initiations; unfortunately the film wanders off into a side-plot that softens its impact...

Author: By William Burden, | Title: For Men Only | 2/5/1952 | See Source »

...this point For Men Only dilutes its story with such exagerated side-plots as the attempt of Omega Nu's president to trump up a morals charge against the professor. But in the course of this sidetrack, we get a picture of the college administration performing various acrobatic hush-up operations to prevent "the alumni's pens from freezing in their checkbooks...

Author: By William Burden, | Title: For Men Only | 2/5/1952 | See Source »

College Spirit. In Decatur. Ill., on the 750 pins sold by Alpha Phi Omega fraternity for Millikin University's homecoming celebration, the name of the college was spelled "Millikan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 12, 1951 | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

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