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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sixteen members of the Senior Class were elected to Phi Beta Kappa on Thursday night, by the Junior Eight and faculty advisors. Winthrop and Kirkland Houses lead with three members apiece, while each of the other five Houses placed two on the list...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P.B.K. Selects Six 'Cliffe Students, Sixteen 1956 Men | 11/12/1955 | See Source »

...sergeant in the field artillery, he worked as a forward observer with the infantry after he was commissioned on the battlefield during the Battle of the Bulge. After three years in the Army, he studied history at the University of Kentucky and finished up at Yale, where he made Phi Beta Kappa and was president of the Political Union. He was one of ten undergraduates to win overseas scholarships for study at Oxford. He joined us six years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter, Oct. 24, 1955 | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

...President Frank Stanton (Ph.D. in Psychology, Ohio State '35) cries: "Not even the sky is the limit. The potentials of television are as big as the potentials of American society-and I do not feel like setting a limit on that." In Rockefeller Center, NBC President Pat Weaver (Phi Beta Kappa, Dartmouth '30) grows ever more expansive: "Television is as big as all outdoors. The whole country can visit the Vatican and La Scala at once. Our horizons are boundless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Big As All Outdoors | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

...boss was Betty Brown, a trim, pretty redhead and a Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Southern California. For Wouk, it was a clear case of love at second sight. Betty was a Protestant, but not a practicing one. She thinks now that part of Herman's appeal for her was that he made her see "that one didn't have to be a stupe to be religious." When Herman went back to sea, Betty Brown began studying Judaism, and a year later, on her 25th birthday, became a Jewish convert. Betty's Hebrew name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Wouk Mutiny | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...Ghirlandajo Room of Agassiz, the Radcliffe chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will initiate an as yet undisclosed number of new members from the graduating class. Twelve seniors have already been elected to the chapter, six this year and six last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 225 Will Get A.B. Degrees At 'Cliffe's Commencement | 6/15/1955 | See Source »

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