Word: phi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bombing Miracles. Pipe-smoking Arizona-born Dan De Luce, 32, worked a 48-hour week in A.P.'s Los Angeles bureau while attending University of California at Los Angeles. He graduated (Phi Beta Kappa) in 1934, soon set out on the kind of career newsmen dream about. He was in the Balkans with his handsome wife when Germany invaded Poland. From Lwow he sent one of the war's first air-raid eyewitness dispatches: "As I write . . . 21 German bombers are raining heavy bombs. . . . The table under my hand is shaking like something alive. If [the hotel] holds...
...addition to the announcement of the men who were elected to Phi Beta Kappa Monday, four Juniors were also selected. They were Borden F. Beck, Redmond, Oregon, graduate of Redmond Union High School but now in the Army; Warren Bennett, Dorchester, Boston Latin School, member of the Army Medical Reserve; Kenneth M. Case, New York City, Fieldston School and still at Harvard; and Ernest J. Dieterich, Akron, Ohio, Western Reserve Academy, also at College...
Officials of the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Society last night announced the election of 16 new members to the Undergraduate Chapter...
...numskulls, was a waiter, sold magazine subscriptions. On the side he was a night clerk in a branch post office. Summers he lectured on French Symbolist poets and once translated Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's Ecce Homo. He aver aged $1,000 a year and earned, in addition, a Phi Beta Kappa...
What was he? He was a lot of things: a Yale Phi Beta Kappa, a Columbia L.L.B., a first lieutenant in World War I's A.E.F., now an assistant district attorney of the State of New York-the information Francis Ellis Rivers put down in applying for membership in the American Bar Association was more than adequate...