Word: ann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once before, when she was only twelve, round-faced Doris Ann Hall of Hudson, N.C. had worked her way up to the finals of the National Spelling Bee, put on each year in Washington, D.C. by the Scripps-Howard newspapers. But that time, with 30 other contestants still left, she had muffed the word condign and gone down to defeat. This year, when she found that she was to be in the finals, she made up her mind: she was going...
Since the "pantie riot" at Ann Arbor, no U.S. coed has been sure that she would not be victimized by one. So far, pantie riots have broken out on at least 16 U.S. campuses. Most of them followed a set pattern. First came the rumble of the approaching male mob, a signal which sent every red-blooded girl running to a window. Then came an exchange of hoots, jeers, cries and threats between street and dormitory, the indignant protests of a faculty member, the struggle with hastily summoned cops. Then came the invasion, the slamming of doors, the thump...
Private Life: Wife: Maurine Doran; two children: a daughter Ann, 26, an artist; a son William (27), West Point '45, an infantry major who was seriously wounded last year in Korea...
...counselor report comments, "the job was nearly worthless but the experience was very valuable indeed," and suggested for Ann a job "valuable in itself. Whatever it is, rather than valuable for what it demonstrates of the more foolish aspects of our society..." Another faculty recommendation was "Next year department store away from home. Following year: work with children on an Indian reservation...
...Miss Ann Moore, the present head nurse of the eight-bed infirmary; finds, for example, that one of the most persistent sources of complaints stems from girls who think they are sicker than they really are. The disappointment suffered by a girl who thinks she is seriously, ill and is told she has only a virus can be almost traumatic...