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Radcliffe College held its 79th Commencement exercises in the College Yard yesterday morning, despite an imminent storm which threatened to chase 500 candidates for degrees and 2,000 guests into the nearby buildings...
Charles M. Bohlen '27, Special Assistant to the Secretary of State, and Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religon, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, will speak at the 79th Commencement excercises of Radcliffe June...
...Bannerman because the latter serves Brown Betty for dessert. The scene is Serenity House, a resort version of Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, whose guest list makes the crowd at Bleak House look like a convention of bond salesmen. There are, among others, the social arbiter Mrs. Cortelyou ("When above 79th Street, do as they do above 79th Street"); the warring psychiatrists Dr. Onan L. Digges ("the Saniflush of the Unconscious") and the "Freudy-cat" Dr. Selig J. Reichner; Miss La Fosse, who claims that she graduated from Vassar at twelve and rode "pillion on an older man's motor...
...veterans produced explosions of creative effort," says James F. Mathias, a 79th Division infantryman commissioned on the battlefield in Normandy, who came back to screen Yale's returning G.I.s and now helps screen candidates for the Guggenheim Foundation's annual awards. "The new talents are obvious in the sciences, but they are just as great in painting, music, writing and scholarship." In routine matters, they did still better. Veterans and their wives settled down and became the generation to cut the wartime divorce rate in half, raise the birth rate 26.2% in a decade, demand that schools teach...
Your July 8 Letters correspondent, Mr. Eugene B. Vest, asks to what extent non-smokers like himself have their lives shortened by sitting in smoke-filled rooms. Let me reassure him-not two-fifths of a second. My 79th year sustains this viewpoint. Down the years I have never lessened my smoking, my average being half a pound of pipe tobacco a week and a packet of cigarettes a day. This would work out roughly in 64 years to better than three-quarters of a ton of pipe tobacco-disregarding some hundreds of cigars and thousands of cigarettes...