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When Mrs. Winthrop W. Aldrich and Mrs. Roland Harriman were in pigtails the Manhattan citadel of female educational snobbishness which their respective parents favored was Miss Spence's School. For 30 years Clara B. Spence put her cloistered young ladies through the drawing room, taught them enough "current events" to provide conversation at their debuts, took them to Central Park to study birds and trees...
MARCHING! MARCHING! - Clara Weatherwax...
...Though Clara Weatherwax spent her infancy in a papoose basket and though her name looks too good to be true, she is no made-over Choctaw or Czech. She claims descent from Roger Williams and 14 Revolutionary ancestors; her grandfather was a pioneer on the Northwest coast of which she writes. But her violent Marxian melodrama will never be recommended by the Daughters of the American Revolution. (The one Daughter in the book is a throwback, impoverished into sympathy for her Red neighbors.) Marching! Marching! obeys the law of Marxian fiction in having no hero but half-a-dozen protagonists...
...Since Clara Phillips beat out Alberta Meadows' brains near Los Angeles 13 years ago, a hammer seemed to California editors the most glamorous of all murder weapons. Last week a Los Angeles citizen interested enough to buy copies of all his local newspapers could have pieced together the following picturesque account of Mrs. Willys' feat...
...wanted to clean up a bit," a Herald & Express newshawk heard Mrs. Willys answer. "I'm not a bit sorry. I was thinking of Clara Phillips as I swung on him. Now give me a drink...