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...level the Divinity School was about to collapse. Phillips Brooks House--for better or for worse--had strayed far from its underlying religious principles. The head of Memorial Church, because of responsibility at the failing Divinity School, could not spend sufficient time at the Church. Most important, the religious complexion of the student body had changed radically...
...religious complexion of the University, which has been so much commented on recently is an outgrowth and a reflection of the social scene in the nation as well as here. A significant number of College students are members of upper-middle and lower-upper class families. The religious complexion of these families in the nation is primarily Episcopalian and Jewish. As a result the predominant religious membership on the campus is Episcopalian and Jewish. In addition, a large portion of the student body in the College each year graduates from the many New England Episcopal prep schools, such as Groton...
...COSMETICS. Inside, among glittering spangled signs and recessed exhibition niches, small jars of "orange cream for nourishing the skin" sold fast at 50? ; so did "Cream Metamorphic" for improving the complexion. There was "White Nights Face Cream" for 80?, "Festival Face Powder" for $1.95, perfumes called "Spirit of Red Moscow," "Fisherman's Fairy Tale" and "Fly Away." (One old favorite notably missing: "Svetlana's Breath," named in honor of Stalin's only daughter.) Some, like "Jubilee of the Red Army" ($12), came in delicate glass flacons. A children's set containing tooth paste and powder, soap...
...black & white photographs, where his bland coloring makes for a washed-out picture. (Before he makes his TV broadcasts, the makeup men have to pencil in hairline and eyebrows.) But in full color Ike Eisenhower emerges as a warm study of a man of 63 years, ruddy of complexion from the jaw to the top of his broad, bald head, with the ruddiness contrasted by blue eyes, blond-whitish eyebrows and thin wisps of greying blond hair. The pictures on the following pages were taken at the White House and in Augusta, Ga., during the period when the President...
Sylvia Russell's complexion was pale olive and her eyes were limpid hazelgreen, but her hair was her crowning glory. It was what British Guiana called "Good Hair": it came flaxen straight from her immigrant cockney father and gave no hint, by frizz or kink, that Sylvia's mother was "a low-class girl" of "Buck" (Guiana Indian) and Negro parentage. Sylvia could not claim to belong to "the respectable middle class" of old and established colored families, but she was tony enough to attend the Georgetown academy of Miss Jenkins (a colored lady who passed for white...