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...called Little Diomede and the Russian island called Big Diomede lies 2% miles of Bering Strait and the International Dateline. From big, weather-worn Father Bernard R. Hubbard, the 61-year-old "Glacier Priest" whose Alaskan explorations are known around the world, came a postcard last week to Alaska Authoress Barrett (Spawn of the North) Willoughby. From his mission on Little Diomede (pop. 130), Father Hubbard wrote...
Vera Micheles Dean, authoress and research director of the Foreign Policy Association, New York, led the panel of speakers at Saturday evening's symposium in Agassiz on "1950-A Backward Glance and a Forward Look." Miss Dean spoke of her experiences in the field of foreign relations, its ever increasing importance, and its growing tensions. Four other fields in which women of the Class of 1925 have worked were represented by Mrs. Frank H. Brown, department store work; Mrs. Meredith B. Givens, government; Miss Sybil A. Stone, psychology; and Mrs. Kan Lee, teaching (in China...
Winding up a coast-to-coast lecture tour with her husband, Authoress Mrs. Krishna Hutheesing, younger sister of India's Prime Minister Nehru, said in Manhattan that the kumkum, the spot of color worn in the center of the forehead by Indian women, is not a caste mark. "It's a sign that one is feeling gay or festive-we put it on as part of our make...
Grumpy Sam. Why Miss Hahn bothered to go after her becomes clear as she brilliantly follows prim, self-satisfied Authoress Burney through her career. The success of her first tender little bore of a novel, Evelina (1778), lifted her out of the circle around her father, Dr. Burney the music master, and into the center of the group surrounding the formidable Dr. Johnson. Fanny became the confidante of Mrs. Thrale, who was loved by the great man after his grumpy fashion. When Mr. Thrale died and left his wife free to marry, she passed Johnson by and declared she would...
...about culture," trilled Authoress Ilka (Past Imperfect) Chase, 44, who blew into Portland, Ore. to tell dealers how to sell Cadillacs to women. "Of course," she told the press, one "can be very successful or proficient and still not be cultured...