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Word: phi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winner in St. Mark's School (Southboro, Mass.) was La-Rue Robbins Lutkins, who went on to graduate from Yale as a Phi Beta Kappa with honors in history. He joined the Foreign Service of the State Department as vice consul in Havana in 1942 (during the war served with the OSS in Africa), was then transferred to Peking, China in 1946. He is now with the American Embassy in Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 1, 1954 | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

...that point, Katchen père put his foot down on the budding concert career, sent the boy to high school and Haverford College. Julius buckled down to his studies, majored in philosophy and literature, became a Phi Beta Kappa and won the scholarship (awarded by the French government) that took him to Paris. In 1946 he played at the first UNESCO Festival and, with a pocketful of fine notices, set off on the rounds of European and Near Eastern music centers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hero from Long Branch | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

Korn, elected to Phi Beta Kappa last fall, is a concentrator in the biochemical sciences and plans to attend the Medical School next year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College News in Brief | 2/20/1954 | See Source »

...desired positions: 1) football captain, 2) editor of the Yale Daily News, 3) chairman of the junior prom, 4) membership in Skull and Bones, 5) basketball captain, 6) membership in the Whiffenpoofs singing organization, 7) chairman of WYBC, 8) tie between hockey captain and swimming captain, 10) president of Phi Beta Kappa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football Captain Exalted by Yalies | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

William G. (for George) Bonelli is one of the noisiest, most powerful politicians in California. A hawk-beaked, hail-fellow rancher, lawyer and onetime associate professor, "Big Bill''* Bonelli, 58, wears wide-brimmed hats and. when the occasion demands, a Phi Beta Kappa key (won at the University of Southern California). He is also the boss of one of the most potent political agencies in the U.S. As chairman of the California State Board of Equalization, Bonelli supervises the tax assessments of big businesses; as the board member for Southern California, he hands out all liquor licenses from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Big Bill Goes Over the Hill | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

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