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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...
Pressed for some sort of reason, she claims "I like it because everyone there enjoys studying so." Since her graduation from Sweet Briar College in 1948, Miss Sharp has been preparing for her momentous step by taking "all sorts of law courses...
...Pickett '50 acquired her briar when a man tried to break her of smoking cigarettes. She now smokes both...
...college men--even the price advantage of pipes doesn't compensate. Complained L. Esprit Gaulois ocC. "Who could admire a briar in a miss...
Last month, when Harry Truman appointed Martha Lucas as a U.S. delegate to the Paris UNESCO conference, Sweet Briar suspected she might not stay much longer at the college she had helped to make one of the best in the U.S. Sure enough, last week, President Lucas sent word from Paris that she would resign next June. Chatting with newsmen before taking the boat train enroute to the U.S., she said she next wanted to write a book on the philosophy of religion which might help to "bridge the gaps of understanding that separate the peoples of the world today...