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After a day's work as headmistress of Manhattan's fashionable girls' Brearley School, Mrs. Mclntosh rushes home to play with her four sons and one daughter (aged 7 to 13) until their 9:30 bedtime. To keep them "individuals," she packs off each of the children (including the twins) to a different school. Weekends, on a Massachusetts farm, the younger Mclntoshes get better acquainted with each other and with mother and father-Dr. Rustin Mclntosh, who is a professor of pediatrics at Columbia and director of Babies Hospital...
...invisible infrared or ultraviolet light for seeing and signaling at night, 2) a method of broadcasting waves of the same frequency as ordinary sound. Girl. Anne Hagopian, 16, a Manhattan architect's daughter. Small, dark Anne learned her science from books and at Manhattan's swank Brearley School. Like Amber, she is an athlete, musician (piano) and likes to paint. A specialist in atomic theories, she plans to go to Radcliffe and become a research physicist...
...divorced when Diana was seven. From seven to twelve she was entombed in a Parisian convent school. She subsequently attended the Garrison-Forest School near Baltimore, which nearly went out of business once when Father John paid her a call. She also had a go at Manhattan's Brearley and a string of other seminaries...
...Ethel Walker, Rosemary Hall, Westover, Miss Hall's, Miss Porter's (Farmington), Chapin, Foxcroft, Brearley and Spence...
...live & learn. The 174 day pupils arrive in limousines or in the school bus which shuttles swankly up & down Park Avenue. In the tight little world of metropolitan finishing schools, Spence has had its troubles. By 1932 it was undeniably losing ground to such rivals as Brearley, Chapin, Miss Hewitt's, Nightingale-Bamford. In alarm the trustees merged it with small Miss Chandor's School, under Valentine Laura Chandor. By the time Headmistress Chandor died last autumn Spence was again heading up. To carry on the good work the trustees last week picked as her successor...