Word: phi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Class activities went on as usual. The '28 football team defeated the Yale class champions 13 to 0. Hammer, Dearborn, Hemminger, Wilson, Cashing, Turnoy, Fox, Hodges, Adams, Herman, Allen, Lomasnoy, Heard, Barbee, Van Rensseloar, Ellis, Mulliken, and Long were on the winning team. And Phi Beta Kappa's juniors were Ernest T. Berkeley, Edgar M. Hoover, Hyman Sobell, Martin Tall, Bleiweiss, Jones, and Stamm...
Western civilization is worth saving to everybody but Joe McCarthy, news analyst Elmer Davis declared at yesterday's annual literary exercises of the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Chapter...
Poet Peter Viereck '37 and news analyst Elmer Davis will address the annual meeting of the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa at 11 a.m. today in Sanders Theatre...
...Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell, Monkey Wrench never bothered to pick up an advanced degree; campus legend has it that he was outraged when the University of Wisconsin told him that he would have to type his thesis (he had written it out in longhand on scraps of brown paper). The lack of a master's and a doctorate, however, was never a handicap. Students flocked to his classes, crowded into his office in the afternoon, swarmed into his cluttered living room at night. There, with his wife ("Grandma") and daughter (Helena Ayesha Theodora), Monkey Wrench would entertain...
...murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, learned that the parole board had turned down his bid for freedom after 28 years in stir because he "is not the right type of man to go back to society." Told not to apply for parole again until 1965, Leopold, a Phi Beta Kappa who has studied 26 languages in prison, said he was "somewhat disappointed," but could "only accept the decision as gracefully as possible." Five & Dime Heiress Barbara Mutton and German Tennis Ace Baron Gottfried von Cramm, her "dearest friend for years" (notably since her 1951 divorce from her fourth...