Word: upsilon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Theta Upsilon Fraternity pledges at Northern Illinois College of Optometry got even with Senior John Santarelli after he put them through an initiation "Hell Week." After dressing him in misfit shoes and clothes, they gave him a nickel spending money, put him on a plane at Chicago, and sent him off to Kansas City...
Crawling back to his Canadian infantry outfit after a scouting mission in Italy. Captain Bob Chard blundered into a position held by Greek troops. A sentry challenged. Captain Chard answered in purest fraternity-house Greek: "Delta Upsilon; Phi Kappa Psi." The sentry promptly opened fire and threw a grenade. Chard is recovering in a base hospital...
Charlie has supported Bergen most of his life. He began by putting Bergen through high school and almost through Northwestern University, and got him into Delta Upsilon. Charlie was whittled out 25 years ago by a Chicago barkeep named Mack (price: $35). He was modeled on a sketch Bergen made of a red headed Chicago newsboy. Bergen was then 16, the gawky, moody second son of a Swedish immigrant named Berggren who had run a retail dairy business in Chicago and a farm near Decatur, Mich...