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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wallingford, Conn. Georges v. Electromaster...
...Author. Born in Wethersfield, Conn., in 1863, tall, robust, blue-eyed Charles McLean Andrews says that his life could be of interest to none, hopes his writings may be. The son of a minister, descended from one of the first New Haven settlers whose colony he has studied, he graduated from Trinity College (Hartford) at 21, published his first book, The River Towns' of Connecticut at 26 while associate professor of history at Bryn Mawr, married six years later, taught at Johns Hopkins before he became Farnum Professor of American History at Yale in 1910. In his office...
Rosemary Hall in swank Greenwich, Conn, is a collection of Gothic-Roman- esque-Italianate buildings which are predominantly pink stucco chiefly because pink is a favorite color of Rosemary's breezy, strong-minded old Headmistress Caroline Ruutz-Rees (pronounced R'Treece). The "Boarders" and the "Day Boarders" wear wool or tweed uniforms in winter and gingham ones in spring tailored to Headmistress Ruutz-Rees's exact specifications. All regard her with a loyalty that makes Rosemary Hall notable among girls' schools not so much for its fashionableness and its stiff scholastic standards as for the fact...
...price ($309,000) set for the school was characteristically precise, for nothing about Rosemary Hall has ever been too small to escape Founder Ruutz-Rees's attention. She was a blue-eyed, ambitious young Englishwoman of 23 when she founded the school in Wallingford, Conn, in 1890. It was named after Judge William Gardner Choate's nearby Rosemary Farm (now the site of Choate School for boys). Ten years after she moved it to Greenwich in 1900 began her association with another Englishwoman, small Mary Elizabeth Lowndes, who last week remained as co-headmistress. The first Greenwich plant...
...Hall of the Navy aircraft carrier Lexington who explained that he had fallen in love with Cinemactress Rogers after seeing her dance in Follow the Fleet. Campaigning for birth control, Mrs. Thomas Norval Hepburn, mother of Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn, two sons and two other daughters, declared in New Haven, Conn.'s First Methodist Church: "If you aren't frank about sex, your children will never confide in you again. When I explained scientifically and specifically to one of my daughters how she was born, she said: 'Oh. then I can have a baby without getting married...