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Smith College's Eleanor Shipley Duckett, 68, crisp, brisk author and scholar of Latin and medieval literature (Anglo-Saxon Saints and Scholars; Gateway to the Middle Ages) whose Latin 28 was one of Smith's most uncut classes. A D.Lit. from the University of London, Miss Duckett for years shared a trim white house with her West Highland white terrier Gregory (named after Gregory the Great) and Novelist Mary Ellen Chase (Silas Crockett, The Bible and the Common Reader); she has long celebrated the completion of each Chase book by buying its author an ice cream cone...
...brisk, tireless little woman, with a kind of Helen Hokinson figure, Minnie Guggenheimer, with a lot of help from her wealthy lawyer-husband, also finds time to keep up three or four charities, a ten-room Park Avenue apartment and a New Jersey summer estate...
Last week also brought news to Canton of the fall of Tsingtao, last Nationalist pocket in North China. South of the river Communist armies advanced without opposition. The Formosa registration counter did a brisk business...
...Bund and Soochow Creek. On the third day of Communist rule, 300 truckloads of political workers and takeover officials chugged into Shanghai. One group, responsible for industry, trade, finance, postal services and telecommunications, set up offices in the Pacific Hotel. The halls of the hotel quickly filled with brisk, businesslike young girl political workers dressed in the uniform of the Red army...
...many people had heard of 31-year-old Sam: a salesman for a London tobacco firm, he had never swung a club in the nationals before. But in the semifinals, there was Sam, wearing a fixed half-smile on his broad face. He teed off against Frank Stranahan. A brisk wind blew in from the Irish Sea. Between the wind and Sam McCready's smile, Stranahan's game folded up. He went down...