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Married. Charles Gary Rumsey, 23, aviator son of Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey, founder of the Junior League; and Mary Maloney, 23, clerk in the Oyster Bay, Long Island, Welfare Department; in Manhattan...
...these events became public knowledge last week when Marilyn Miller and "Chet" O'Brien dragged Harrison, N. Y.'s Town Clerk away from a barn dance, had themselves "secretly" married in the presence of a dozen yokels...
...Bobby" Edwards, son of devout Congregationalist parents, was a clerk with ambitions to be a minister. He became intimate with his next-door neighbor, a telephone operator named Freda McKechnie, whose father worked in the same coal company as Edwards' father. Both families attended the Bethesda Church. Three years ago Bobby Edwards went off to school at East Aurora, N. Y., fell in love with a plain-looking teacher named Margaret Grain. Their unusual romance was revealed to the jury of anthracite miners in terms of 172 letters written by Edwards to Miss Grain after he returned to Edwardsville. Mostly...
...experiences to tell that made his first story one of the best-seller nonfiction books of the year. "Retreat from Glory" gives the chaotic situation of unrest in central Europe just after the war. With an eye to details, he describes the elegant British minister, Sir George Clerk: "Alongside the squat khaki-and-blue-trousered figures of the Czech and French generals he looked like a thoroughbred in a field of hacks." Mr. Lockhart unconsciously appears to recognize in his present book the lack of drama that colored his last as he admits "In Russia I had witnessed a proletarian...
Wellesley yields to none, however, in democracy. Although only about 10% of its students need to work for their college living, it is a proud Wellesley boast that by her campus dress the tycoon's daughter cannot be told from the clerk's daughter. Fashions run to inexpensive sports clothes and low-heeled shoes, with hare legs & socks much in evidence this year. Lest snobbery or cliquishness raise its head. Wellesley charges the same for all dormitory rooms, assigns them by lot. Priding itself on a well-rounded life, Wellesley is inclined to think Bryn Mawr and Mount...