Word: allens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ferdinand J. AchDorothy Stuhlberg, Lasell Oliver E. Allen Charlotte Whitman, New York William H. Appel Mary Lloyd, Boston Ryo Arai Marjorie Baldwin, Stoneleigh College Shailer Avery Elizabeth Gorman, Winchester Robert G. Axtel Catherine Lawrence, Wellesley Winslow B. Ayer Patricia Miller, Smith Edward R. Bacon Adell Voss, Swampscott Grover C. Bacon Jay Prince, Cambridge Edwin T. Baker Mary Favorite, Brimmer-May School William H. Baker Edith Alexander, Newton Stephen P. Baldwin Joy Kidder, Concord Benjamin N. Barksdale Janet Harwood, Beaver Richard S. Barrows Helen Francis, Wellesley George Bartlett Ann Folsom, Hingham Robert S. Benshimol Patricia Dadmon, Arlington Bernard R. Benson Sybil...
...undergraduates turn up their noses at "rah-rah" stuff, avoid exercise, have on their list of favorites Tommy Dorsey's orchestra, the Stork Club, Yale, the film You Can't Take It with You, the New Yorker magazine.* Although Vassar is expensive ($1,855 a year), Mrs. Allen declares that "the snobbishness of wealth just does not exist there," there are no sororities, one-fifth of the students get scholarships...
...heroines as Inez Milholland, '09, a black-haired Irish beauty who as an undergraduate soapboxed for woman suffrage, later led shirtwaist strikes in Manhattan, once rode a white horse down Fifth Avenue, died stumping for suffragism and socialism in 1915. But of all Vassar's graduates, Mrs. Allen reports, 70% are Republican. Other statistics...
...Allen found that Vassar alumnae, almost to a woman, were proud of their college and what it had done for them, liked their work, took an intelligent interest in their husbands' work (see cut, p. 45), got more fun out of reading, friends, sports, gardening and music than from bridge. Mrs. Allen also consulted their husbands. One husband's comment...
...mind on the two most exciting spring games (baseball and politics), Prairie Editor William Allen White, Republican, turned to Democrat Eleanor Roosevelt during a dinner in her honor, declared: "My dear, I don't care if he runs for the third or fourth term so long as he lets you run the bases...