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...author was a typical alumna, Agnes Rogers, '16, writer, onetime circulation promotion manager for Harper's, second wife and collaborator of Author Frederick Lewis Allen (Only Yesterday). Mrs. Allen had ransacked the college records (including returns from questionnaires to 10,000 alumnae...
...hair down, Americans at Work last week took U. S. listeners backstage at a Broadway show, a Chicago hotspot, a Hollywood set. At the first-act curtain of Du Barry Was a Lady in Manhattan, Americans at Work cornered Betty Grable's understudy, a blondy, Albertina Rasch alumna named Ruth Farm; and a tall, taffy-haired trouper named Ann Graham, from Birmingham, Ala. Ann, the chattier, said she had sung with Goodman and Vallée, aimed at musicomedy stardom and then marriage with a theatre-world mate. Said velvety Ann, discouraging any number of unseen stage-door Johnnies...
...William Allan Neilson, who retires August 31, asked Mrs. Morrow to run the college ad interim. First woman to head Smith (although it was started in 1875 with money contributed by rich Spinster Sophia Smith), Mrs. Morrow was no illogical choice for the job. She is a Smith alumna ('96), mother of three Smith alumnae (Elisabeth '25; Anne '27; Constance '35), has been a Smith trustee since 1926, helped raise the college's endowment from $2,000,000 to $6,000,000 (to which her husband, Morgan Partner Dwight Morrow, contributed...
Result of such mid-Victorian restrictions and the finishing schools' training, says Miss Ogden, is that their graduates: 1) become too much interested in men, 2) overemphasize their own importance, 3) become class-conscious, 4) know very little about the world. Farmington's most famed alumna is Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow...
...Affiliated Schools' 3,000 "alumnae," nearly all have gone back to their old trades. There many of them do missionary work, start local classes. But several have gone to college after the summer course and one made Phi Beta Kappa. To show "what Bryn Mawr meant to me," one alumna led a former director of the school into a new, glistening, modern bathroom in her tenement flat, boasted: "There's not another bathroom for miles around...