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...Harvard chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, a professional education association, will present a check for a $100 scholarship to the headmaster of Roxbury High School this morning...
...Methodist minister who had been a runaway slave, and a nearly blind mother who died in a fire when he was six. After excelling at his local New Jersey high school, young Robeson won a scholarship to Rutgers University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, was valedictorian of the class of 1919 and became the school's first All-America football player. He went on to Columbia University Law School, where he took a degree in 1923. Robeson turned early to singing and brought to Negro spirituals and other work and folk songs a voice of stunning...
Riesman is an admirer of Moynihan's all-embracing academic interests, which he says equip him as a diplomat to "deal with issues on a plane of both contemporary and historical perspective." Riesman recalls a Phi Beta Kappa address that Moynihan delivered at Harvard in which he compared student radicals of the 1960s to the Quaker, Leveler and Digger religious dissidents of Cromwell's England, and then predicted that student activism would die out in the '70s when the demographic bulge produced by the postwar baby boom subsided. Says Riesman: "There aren't many people who have enough knowledge...
...daughter of wealthy New Orleans Coffee Importer Armant Legendre, who belonged to a Creole family, Anne Armstrong earned a Phi Beta Kappa key at Vassar and worked briefly for the New Orleans Times-Picayune. In 1950 she married wealthy Texas Rancher Tobin Armstrong (who will probably accompany her to London) and became mistress of a 50,000-acre Southern Texas spread. Besides being mother of five children, Mrs. Armstrong helps keep the ranch books, works with the Santa Gertrudis cattle on occasion-"She can cut a herd with the best of them," says her husband. She is also an active...
...Connecticut's elite Chaffee School predicted that Ella Rosa Giovanna Oliva Tambussi, the Italian immigrants' daughter who was there on scholarship, would become the first woman mayor of her home town, Windsor Locks, Conn. That was much too modest a forecast. As a young wife and mother, with a Phi Beta Kappa key and M.A. in economics from Mount Holyoke, Ella Grasso was elected to the state assembly in 1952. Captivated by her drive and political savvy, Democratic Boss John Bailey took her on as a speechwriter and adviser. Bailey once told her, she recalls, that "the only time...