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...cheerleaders' All-America seven (because that is the size of the average college squad) is chosen each year by Gamma Sigma, national college cheerleaders' fraternity, with the aid of sportswriters and sportcasters. Gamma Sigma has no college chapters, no fraternity house, no key. Its 900-odd members are divided into two chapters: Alpha (for All-Americans) and Rho (for also-rans). To become an Alpha and wear the All-America insignia (a shield with two crossed megaphones) is as great a distinction among cheerleaders as getting a Phi Beta Kappa key is to a bookworm...
Beef Trust. In 1928, two big men, Frank McHale and Bowman ("Bo") Elder journeyed to the American Legion convention in San Antonio. (McHale weighs 290 Ibs., Elder 310 Ibs.) Frank McHale was a Logansport lawyer who had played mighty football for Michigan (where his scrawny little brother in Sigma Chi, Frank Murphy, hero-worshipped him), and Bo Elder was the Legion's national treasurer. To these two it was important that they get the handsome, prematurely white-haired young dean of the University of Indiana Law School elected national commander of the Legion. They did so by shrewdly lining...
...means Works Projects Administration. A last act of Harold Ickes before turning his PWA over to its new big boss, John Carmody, was to rescind a $21,600 grant to the University of Georgia because he had learned the "dormitory" it would build was a new lodge for Sigma Nu, fraternity of Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert, secretary of the National Democratic Committee and adroit wangler of Federal grants & contracts. Mr. Ickes had previously raised Cain over commissions claimed by Mr. Robert's construction firm for PWA work in Georgia...
...past two years he has been a teaching assistant in the department of political science at the university. During his educational career tenBroek won membership in Phi Beta Kappa; Delta Sigma Rho, debating honor society; Pal Sigma Alpha, political science honor society; Order of the Colf, legal honor body, and the Golden Bear and Winged Helmet honor societies...
...wrote Professor Calvin Springer Hall Jr. recently in an article entitled "The Inheritance of Emotionality," published in the Sigma Xi Quarterly. Dr. Hall, who though only 30 is chairman of the psychology division at Cleveland's Western Reserve University and who is also getting bald, has spent many of his adult years studying "emotionality" (inherent susceptibility to emotional stimuli). Some researchers, such as Behaviorist John Broadus Watson, have tried to show that emotional endowments are all the same at birth, that differences appearing later are due to environment...