Word: phi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kenneth Fairman, Princeton Director of Athletics, commented, "Were a little short of Phi Beta Kappas this year, but in the past three or four years the football squad was a little above the college average." The 1954 freshman squad was a little below average with three in the first fifth, five in both the second and third fifths, eight in the fourth fifth, and nine in the last fifth. Of these last nine at least three flunked...
...defeated in 1949. This year, Freeman, an extremely well-qualified candidate, does not have enough money of his own to wage a successful campaign and the CCA has put up the necessary funds to allow Freeman to run. Then too, there is Crane himself, a magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa; Amory calls him the "best qualified mayor in the United States...
...recent writer for the American Legion's monthly magazine fears that an article by National Commander Earl Cocke, Jr. was too subtle for Legion members. There was some question whether readers would recognize their commander's references to "pastel mink coats, Phi Beta Kappa keys, and deference to the British Foreign Office." In answer to this call for help from the ranks, "American Legion" has taken off its kid gloves...
...began with his birth in Topeka, Kans. 52 years ago. Then he recalled the University of Colorado, where he made Phi Beta Kappa, Johns Hopkins, where he took his M.D., interned, and won a prized Carnegie fellowship in embryology. In the '30s, he built up a good practice in Manhattan, where he was on the staff of three hospitals. His marriage (childless) ended in divorce in 1942. That year he moved to Greenwich...
...father, a Cambridge policeman all his life, once asked me, 'Why leave Cambridge when anything anyone could possibly ever want is right here?" Mayor Edward A. Crane '35, magna cum laude and senior Phi Beta Kappa, has followed this advice ever since. "I'm a native Cantabridgian, always will be. I was born on Center Street in 1914 and when I married, I finally moved--to the other end of the street...