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...himself, manages to juggle three jobs and an avocation. "I work," he says, "at law during the day, insurance at night, radio on Saturdays, and blondes any time." He is doing all right in all his pursuits. Blinded in an accident at four, Bob nevertheless got a Phi Beta Kappa key at the University of Pennsylvania, became a national intercollegiate wrestling star (captain of the Penn team, three times second-place Eastern medalist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Saturday Career | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...Beta Kappa wearers do not develop plenteous paunches to support the golden key without accompanying ulcers, he implies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slow Down or Take Out Insurance Policy, Zimmerman Counsels Grade-Hungry Grinds | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

Ohio State's new football coach, Wes Fesler, is a Phi Beta Kappa. Last month, sounding off against the professionalism of college football in the South, he complained that Southern athletes hardly had to open a book to get a passing grade. Last week Coach Fesler got an answer, Southern style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Uncurtain | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

Fourteen men, including eight February graduates, four Seniors, and two Juniors, were elected Monday evening to the Undergraduate Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, David G. Gill '45, undergraduate secretary of the Society, announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phi Beta Key Goes to 14 in Spring Ballot | 4/23/1947 | See Source »

...good form to do good work." Once a month the older boys with grades of 87% or better get ice cream and cake for dessert, while the dullards eat applesauce or prunes. Each spring Peters declares a half-holiday in honor of old grads who have made Phi Beta Kappa and other scholastic honors at college. He usually picks the day the Cleveland Indians play their opening game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Nickel's Worth | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

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