Word: phi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer he spent on a nearby farm as a member of the Boys' Working Reserve of World War I. The $800 he saved put him through his first year at Michigan, where he was a serious but not brilliant student, no big man on campus, a member of Phi Mu Alpha fraternity. In his senior year, he won third place in a national singing contest, received a music scholarship to the Chicago Musical College. He spent the following summer in Chicago, dividing his time between singing lessons and reading law in the offices of his mother's cousin...
Crown Publishers' chick (first printing: 30,000) has been promised front-page cockalorums in the Sunday review sections of the Chicago Tribune and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Hiram Haydn, the proud father, who edits the Phi Beta Kappa quarterly, The American Scholar, is going to throw an "autograph-party" for his chick in his home town (Cleveland) and will speak in its defense on a radio program named Books on Trial. Coward-McCann's bird has already been taken under the hot wing of the Literary Guild, thus assuring Britain's Old Mother Goudge (who wrote the best...
Rickard's death-and the depression-put the Garden into the red. Kilpatrick, a construction man, was picked to pull it out. Kilpatrick was fond of sports. At Yale ('11) he had been an All-America end as well as a Phi Beta Kappa. Kilpatrick cut out the mammoth free-ticket list, broke up the under-table deals with ticket speculators, put less stress on boxing, more on hockey (the Garden owns the cup-winning Rangers), the circus, ice shows and rodeos. By 1935 he hit the black with a profit of $179,568, has stayed there ever...
Radcliffe's Iota chapter has elected Gladys Paul Rudy of West Hartford, Connecticut, Judith Aun Spector of Brooklyn, New York, and Irene of Brighten, all Radcliffe '49, to Phi Beta Kappa...
...appetite for action. He was the youngest Eagle Scout in New Jersey (and won a trip to Europe with the qualifying merit badge). At Rutgers, he was varsity quarterback, lacrosse letterman, diver on the swimming team, middleweight boxing champion, a fair musician, and a near miss at Phi Beta Kappa. When Rudy Vallee was king of the crooners, Ozzie was a topflight bandleader. Last week, at 41, he was still riding high. His husband-&-wife program (CBS, Fri. 9:30 p.m., E.S.T.) was the best in its category, with a 10.5 Hooperating...