Word: phi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fearful that his show may be taken over by exhibitionists, Nelson makes every effort to select the soundest applicants from his flood of mail. During the six years that the show has been on radio & TV, the grooms have included an executive of Douglas Aircraft Co., a Phi Beta Kappa from Western Reserve, an atomic scientist and Nelson's own brother-in-law. This week one of the grooms was Jacklyn Lucas, 24, who as a 17-year-old Marine corporal on Iwo Jima was the youngest man ever to win the Medal of Honor...
College grades make some difference, "but hardly enough ... to inspire anyone to burn the midnight oil." Of the male A students, half are in the over-$5,000 bracket; but 41% of the C and D people are in it, too. In the learned (and lowpaying) professions, the Phi Beta Kappa's advantage is greatest: he is twice as likely to be making over $5,000 as his C or D counterpart. In business, his advantage dwindles to almost nothing...
...Phi Bete does not leap ahead, does the campus politician? Surprisingly enough, the answer is no. The men who went in for four extracurricular activities for instance, are apt to average about $1,000 less than men who went in for no activities at all. And what about the students who worked their way through college? Here the survey shatters an old American illusion. Among the Old Grads of 40 whose parents supported them entirely, 42% make $7,500 or more. The score for the Horatio Alger group...
...Phi Beta Kappa announced the election of five Radcliffe juniors last night. They include Nancy Barrow of Manhasset, New York and Bertram Hall, majoring in Government: Margaret S. Bryan of Cambridge, majoring in Biology: Ina Low Feldman of Brington, majorine in History and Literature: Majorie J. Hill of Troy. New York and Barnard Hall, majoring in Romance Philology; and Catherine Rubino of Port Chester, New York and Cambridge, majoring in English...
Despite these other activities, seven or the Senior Sixteen Phi Beta Kappa last fall were Lowell House men, and 13 Bellboy men have received the annual Jacob Wendell Scholarship for the outstanding freshman...