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Last week distaff-conscious Odhams Press Ltd., which publishes Woman and Everywoman. added a new magazine called Woman's Realm to its harem. The first issue sold out its press run of more than 1,000,000 copies within a few hours...
While the distaff politicos may simply be undergoing the sort of activity which blossoms every leap year and fades after election day, their Harvard cohorts are mainly engaged in building permanent organizations out of the seeds of election year enthusiasm. Of more than 2000 members of various political groups in the University, something more than half are enrolled in well-established clubs. The others are members of the Students for Stevenson, or the Students for Eisenhower--both temporary organizations...
Last week the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (see below) voted to ordain women, but left the final decision on the matter up to the local presbyteries. Moreover, the cause of the distaff dominae got a new boost from Britain. The Rev. Elsie Chamberlain, 45, tall, dark and handsome Congregationalist minister, was unanimously elected chairman of the Congregational Union - top job in British Congregationalism...
...wood off and on for 20 years, sometimes broken in a desk, sometimes built into a locked drawer-though once, admittedly, it was widened and made into a bridge over a ravine: the result was nearly neck-breaking. The nearest equivalent to this slice of timber is the distaff which the Greeks put in the hands of the Fates-and man's fate, in the Greek sense, is in fact the essential clue to the mystery of Author Compton-Burnett's long (15) line of novels...
...Herald, until he sold it four months ago to the Washington Post, that he had less time for the Trib. But now he is back on the job again and his handsome, outspoken wife, Maryland McCormick, has accurately read the signs, as have top Trib executives. From staff and distaff side, the colonel has been gently urged to make changes in the paper. Says Maryland McCormick: "The odds seem to be against the extreme right wing. It's very sad, but true, and why not face...