Word: phi
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Serious Martyr. Silliphant became terribly serious about television scripts only ten years ago. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Southern California, he joined 20th Century-Fox and had risen to the post of Eastern publicity manager before he decided that "it was time either to write or be unhappy for the rest of my life." He batted out a short story that the fiction editor of Collier's deemed "the most horrible story she'd ever received." Silliphant passed it on to Screen Directors' Playhouse and promptly got an enthusiastic acceptance and a check...
Agronomist Atwood is a Phi Beta Kappa out of the University of Wisconsin, where he simultaneously earned B.A. and M.A. degrees, later got his doctorate in plant cytology. He went to Cornell in 1944 as an expert on developing new kinds of hay and other forage crops, became dean of the graduate school in 1953 and provost of the university in 1955. Popular with the faculty, Atwood might have succeeded Cornell's retiring President Deane W. Malott. This spring the job went to an outsider, Carnegie Corporation Vice President James A. Perkins, and Emory feels all the richer...
...most idealistic men in Laos. Short (5 ft. 1 in., 115 Ibs.), quiet and good-natured, he neither drinks, smokes nor gambles and is fanatic about health, honesty and cleanliness. He shares common Laotian superstitions, such as wearing a "magic" ring and a wrist amulet to placate the phi (spirits, evil or otherwise). Without personal ambition, Kong Le says that "when Laos is free," he will go home to his village and become a farmer...
Seniors elected this spring to Phi Beta Kappa include...
...academic procession is as follows: the University Marshal, the Sheriffs of Middlesex and Suffolk Counties, the President and Fellows of the University, the Overseers, the Governor and his military staff, deans of the departments, honorary degree candidates, professors, other faculty members and officers of the University, former professors, Phi Beta Kappa orator and poet, trustees of the Hopkins Fund, preachers to the University, local ministers, United Ministry Members, college presidents, State Commissioner of Education, U.S. Congressmen, Armed Forces officers, State Supreme Court judges, Court of Appeals judges, Lieutenant Governor, president of Associated Harvard Clubs, former honorary recipients, representatives...