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EDUCATION-private tutors until the age of 15, three years at Mme Souvestre's school near London, three months in a French convent...
...dashing Georgia Belle Scarlett O'Hara was a wispish little English girl with a neatly clipped British accent. Born in Darjeeling, India, in the Himalaya Mountains, Nov. 5, 1913, she spent the first five years of her life in Calcutta, about which she remembers nothing. Later she attended convent school near London with Cinemactress Maureen O'Sullivan. Still later Vivien Leigh studied dramatics. Married in 1932 to Barrister Leigh Holman (whose first name plus her own first name she uses for a stage name), she has a little girl. After The Mask of Virtue, in which, says Cinemactress...
Anna E. King became a social worker as a sideline; her real job was writing advertising copy for a paint & varnish company in Cleveland. When the nuns of the Convent of the Good Shepherd, where she helped to look after delinquent girls, told her they needed a fulltime, trained assistant, she quit her job, went to Western Reserve University, took her M.Sc. in applied social sciences in 1926. After three years at the convent she became supervisor of the Children's Bureau in Cleveland, joined the faculty of Western Reserve in 1929. In 1934 she went to New York...
...General Dilip Rai, came to special lessons redolent with perfume. Soon the nuns found their work too absorbing. Sister Phillippa's request for transfer, because she had put her garden before her religious life, gave the first warning. But it took the twin tragedy of death in convent and village before Sister Clodagh admitted her mistake, asked for recall...
...nose into 2,000 books, spent $8,000. The result is a 320-page history of recreation (covering almost 100 sports from roller polo to aviation), small enough to be carried in a tipster's hip pocket, informative enough to make a sports columnist out of a convent girl...