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Assistant Professor Margaret Clapp had deep brown eyes and dark wavy hair. In her bright red dress, she seemed too slim and pretty to be a historian of note. As she lectured, she spoke softly, seldom moved her hands except to turn the note cards in front of her. As is the custom at Brooklyn, the students constantly interrupted her with questions. Sometimes Professor Clapp answered quickly, sometimes led a lively discussion. Often she broke into a broad, dimpled smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Just Well Rounded | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...Margaret Clapp did not guess why the trustees were there, or why they stayed for lunch with her. That night she rode home on the subway, as usual, to her Greenwich Village walk-up and thought no more about it. But some time later her telephone rang. It was Edward Weeks editor of the Atlantic Monthly, also a Wellesley trustee. Would Miss Clapp have dinner with him? By this time, Miss Clapp had a good idea of what was up. Over brook trout and a bottle of wine at the Ritz-Carlton, Weeks began to ask questions. "Do you sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Just Well Rounded | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Presentation of the degrees will be made at ceremonies commemorating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the opening of Smith. In addition to Miss Cam, degrees will also go to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Sarah Gibson Blanding, president of Vassar, and Margaret Clapp, newly-elected president of Wellesley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prof. Cam Will Get Degree at Smith | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...Gordon Clapp, quiet, competent 43-year-old boss of the Government's $800 million public-power empire had something to say, all right. He had never been asked to serve in an Army job, did not even know he had been considered for one, and would not be interested if he were; TVA duties take up all of his time. Next day, the Army, realizing it had been guilty of irresponsible character assassination, beat a hasty retreat. "The Army," said its new Secretary, Gordon Gray, "has never investigated Mr. Gordon R. Clapp and has absolutely no derogatory information about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Nincompoops at Work | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...Army tried to explain what had happened. A junior officer in G-2 ("Some damn fool of a nincompoop," said new Army Secretary Gordon Gray) had sent an unfavorable report on Clapp to Frankfurt without clearing it with his superiors. Apparently his only sources of information were newspaper reports of TVA-hating Senator Kenneth McKellar's shabby attack on Clapp when Clapp was made head of TVA; the Senate, disregarding old Spoilsman McKellar, had confirmed Clapp. The explanation didn't satisfy Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver. Said he: "This business of smearing the names of good citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Nincompoops at Work | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

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