Word: briar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like a small child caught smoking his father's old briar, state legislators can come up with the most impassioned irrelevancies. When the Blanchard Report recently appeared, implying that the Dever Administration corporation taxes were responsible for the flight of local industry from the Commonwealth, everyone started yelling. In the debate, no one has faced the main problem--how to end the State's progressive industrial anemia...
When pretty, brown-haired Martha Lucas, 37, resigned as President of Sweet Briar College for women (TIME, Oct. 17), she caught the colonnaded Virginia campus a bit off guard. Nevertheless, the trustees set right to work hunting for a successor. Judging by their choice last week, they had apparently kept as their model Martha Lucas herself...
...doctorate in history (Martha went to the University of London), eventually became academic dean of Baltimore's Goucher College for women (Martha was a dean at Radcliffe). In recent years, while global-minded Martha Lucas became a UNESCO delegate and started a Junior Year Abroad program for Sweet Briar, global-minded Anne Pannell has spent much of her time arranging international student scholarships...
Incoming President Pannell will take over her new post July 1. For the 450 girls at fashionable, forward-looking Sweet Briar, her appointment meant that everything would go right on running just as smoothly and amiably as ever...