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Once upon a time, little girls agrowing used to think dreamily of the day they would matriculate at Vassar, Smith, Wellesley, Bryn Mawr or Sweet Briar. But with the population explosion, those colleges, can no longer take care of everyone, and some girls have to settle for less. In Los Angeles, for example, there is the Pink Pussycat College of Striptease...
...Lynchburg, Va.. girls from all-white Sweet Briar women's college picketed drugstores with segregated lunch counters, as six other white and Negro students, including two white girls from similarly fashionable Randolph Macon, began the second week of 30-day trespassing sentences for earlier sit-ins at the counters...
Gideon of Scotland Yard. Jolly good fun for the crime crowd, with Jack Hawkins puffing the inspectorial briar...
According to Alice G. Pannell, President of Sweet Briar College, "the basic need for women's education in the 20th century is to realize the problems of the age of science and space." She called for American women to cooperate rather than compete with men and cited the importance of women "in reducing the manpower shortage...
Months later Shigeko was still bald and beet-complexioned, so she was dubbed Aka Oni (Red Devil). After a nurse ordered her burned hands bandaged, they became gnarled like briar roots, and she lost the use of fingers and hands alike. For Shigeko's was one of the stubborn cases suffering both contractions and keloid growths (in effect, tumors of scar tissue). Shigeko could not work. She had no hope of marriage. And at the Nagaragawa Methodist Church she met scores of other girls in like plight. The Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto called them "The Hiroshima Maidens...