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Class of 1951--President--John Bresnahan, Judith Frost, Katherine Mathews, Carol Smith; Vice-President-- Baila Cohen, Lee Hurd, Rona Jaffe; Secretary--Ann Harrer, Meimel Robinson, Marllyn Welch; Treasurer --Alfreda Cuik, Helon Wolfe, Marie Woolaver; Council Representative--Mary Brandt, Sheila Brown, Rosemary Cochran, Sue Mulloy, Letitia Young...
After a summer's work, he showed up in New York with the manuscript of The Unspeakable Gentleman, an amateurish historical novel which Literary Agent Carl Brandt promptly sold to the Ladies' Home Journal. Says Marquand now: "I will be goddamned if I know why I wrote it. To me it's an indecent exposure and I'm thoroughly ashamed of it." It seemed different at the time: he put his check for $2,000 in the Atlantic Bank of Boston, got a new pair of shoes and had his broken pipes repaired. Admits Marquand...
Over a Barrel. Brandt offered his next story to the Satevepost, and Post Editor George Horace Lorimer liked it at once. For the next two decades, at top rates ($500 to $3,000 for short stories, $30,000 to $40,000 for serials), Marquand's name was synonymous with surefire slick writing. In those days, says Marquand, "I was a simple little boy in the lower echelons, naive about literature and the world in general, just a good boy trying to conform. I thought John Dos Passos was a terrible yellow belly for griping about...
Time ran out for the Radcliffe sophomore class in the Annex basketball intramural finals yesterday afternoon, leaving the score at 15 to 13 in favor of the seniors. A last minute basket by Mary Brandt '51 almost threw the game into an overtime period, but the whistle blew first...
Action began suddenly in the last quarter when the forty-niners completed three in a row. With two minutes of playing time left, sophomore forward Mary Brandt connected two in a series of long desperation shots. The seniors however, kept their two point lead at the close and added 25 more points for their class toward the all-sports intramural trophy...