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...Christmas carol service of 1913, President Lowell was stunned to see Radcliffe girls singing with the choir. He told Davison afterwards. "The University choir is perfectly adequate for the Chapel. I trust you will not invite the young ladies from Radcliffe to sing in the carol services again...
...very next year, however, the young ladies from Radcliffe again sang in the carol service with the choir. Davison was taking a calculated risk, but he won. Lowell never said another word about the carol services. Indeed, shortly after the Harvard-Radcliffe performance with the BSO in 1917, Lowell requested Davison to have the Glee Club sing at a ceremony honoring Marshall Joffre. His closing remarks to Davison were, "and don't forget to invite the ladies from Radcliffe...
...George R. Stewart's 1941 novel, Storm, a young meteorologist named the low-pressure areas on his map after girls (the stormiest: Maria). The U.S. Weather Bureau has since tagged feminine names on hurricanes. This year, to avoid repeating the names of three memorable 1954 hurricanes (Carol, Edna and Hazel), the bureau decided on a new list of names...
...perfection. She whirled through all her other maneuvers with the same precise skill. For the second time in three years Tenley Albright, who kept on skating despite an attack of polio in 1946, took the title to the U.S. In second place: New York's Carol Heiss...
Last week in Lisbon, where Carol had his last legal residence, Mircea got the recognition his mother had longed for. At the conclusion of a suit brought by Mircea Lambrino, a Portuguese court formally declared him to be a true and legitimate Hohenzollern, entitled, along with his stepbrother Michael and his stepmother Magda, to a fair share of Carol's estates, villas and funds. The only problem left was how to talk Michael and Magda out of the money...