Word: kappa
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...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...
...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 he would...
...Prescott Bush, a former Republican Senator from Connecticut, George Bush received an impeccable Eastern education at Phillips Academy, Andover, and then at Yale, where he earned a Phi Beta Kappa key and a degree in economics in 1948. Wishing to escape the shadow of his father's success, he migrated to Texas, co-founded the Zapata Petroleum Corp. in 1953 and accumulated a fortune. In 1964, Bush got his baptism in the Texas political wars when he was defeated in a race for the Senate by liberal Democrat Ralph Yarborough. Lowering his sights, Bush was elected to two terms...
...Gordon, professor of Chemistry and the commission's chairman, said last week that the complaints concerned several investigative articles published in The Crimson last year. One of them--involving Stephen S. Rosenfeld '75, who was required to withdraw from the College for forging Phi Beta Kappa and graduate school recommendations-became nationally known, making the front page of The New York Times...
Awards moved him to tears. As a tormenting reminder of the college past he never had, O'Hara kept a mock Phi Beta Kappa key with a dunce cap on the top, engraved "Nope Never Made...