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Best-known and most ebullient of U.S. lecturers on the drama, New York World-Telegram Critic John Mason Brown annually faces clubwomen in most of the 48 States, spends as many nights in hotel rooms as in his own bed. The gusto he throws into his lecturing he has also thrown into a book about it. Accustomed As I Am (Norton; $2) makes amusing copy of a lecturer's occupational hazards...
Convinced that U.S. morale, like charity, should begin at home, Daddy Wood staged his forum to show off his college as a model of female education and to broadcast the opinions of assorted experts -dietitians, doctors, educators, clubwomen, journalists, etc.-on how to improve U.S. homes. The forum started with talk of nutrition, soon became more lively...
Last week, 1,200 Manhattan clubwomen rallied in honor of the Bill of Rights. To them moody Memsahib Dorothy Thompson raised her armor-piercing alto: "Free speech, free assemblage and a free press did not save the German people from the Nazis. They were the very instruments by which the Nazis came to power...
...tasteful, flowered prints they wear for a Chicago summer, the Ladies of the Grail look more like clubwomen than nuns. Basically, they are "borers from within," much as Communist organizers are. They join girls who will be the wives and mothers of tomorrow, live among them, work with them, play with them, organize their spare-time activities. They are another instance of how the Roman Catholic Church has flourished for so long: by fostering religious orders suited to the times-Benedictines in the Dark Ages to give a Christian meaning to manual labor, Franciscans in the 13th Century to offset...
...clubwomen of America-represented by 3,000 delegates and alternates attending the Golden Jubilee Convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs-last week faced the issues of a world at war. Senators Wheeler and Pepper debated the issue of intervention before them. They heard Colonel Bill Donovan, recently returned from Europe as an Administration emissary, urge all-out aid to Britain. The response was extraordinary for the generally well-mannered meetings of the Federation. The galleries booed and cheered with organized isolationist efficiency...