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...Changing her scuffed, rubber-soled campus shoes for evening slippers, President Aurelia Henry Reinhardt of Mills College at Oakland, Calif, presided at a dinner celebrating two anniversaries, the 88th of the founding of Mills, one of the oldest colleges for women in the U. S., and the 21st of her successful presidency. That was modest President Reinhardt's concession to the Manhattan fund-raising firm of Tamblyn & Brown, who needed an Occasion to help them raise $1,000,000 for Mills's faculty budget. President Reinhardt invoked the memory of her predecessor, Missionary Susan Tolman Mills, whose husband...
...Little Lady." With Coquette in 1929, Miss Hayes reached Los Angeles in her 88th week. Her agent took her out to see the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer casting director. The director took one look at the slight little woman with the tipped-up nose and unflattering yellow hair, turned to her agent to ask: "What does the little lady do? What sort of parts does she play? Mmmmm. Well, leave the little lady's name and address and if anything comes up that she might fit into I'll give her a ring." He never...
...88th birthday last week Ambrose Swasey appropriately received a planet for a present. A great benefactor of U. S. engineering (he has given $750,000 to the Engineering Foundation), white-bearded, bright-eyed Engineer Swasey has been manufacturing topnotch astronomical equipment since 1880. His firm, Warner & Swasey Co. of Cleveland, made the 36-inch Lick Telescope, the Naval Observatory's 26-incher, Canada's Dominion Astronomical Observatory's 72-incher, Argentine National Observatory's 60-incher, the mounting and housing for the 80-incher which will be the world's second largest when...
...kept on marching, out of Los Angeles. Seattle had him for a while, and other towns in the Northwest. Four years ago he turned up in Oroville, Calif., an old mining town, a little whiter, a little scrawnier and no longer plain John Cudney. He was now Brother Isaiah, 88th & last incarnation of the prophet Isaiah. On a rocky hillside he built a great ramshackle temple for his collection of handkerchiefs, canes and crutches, a colony of tents for 40-odd followers whom he called "Immortals." "I shall live forever," he told them, "and so shall you if you obey...
...Hades the Ladies, 88th annual show of Harvard's Hasty Pudding Club, showing difficulties which might arise if Boston débutantes attended Harvard, appeared...