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...Another distaff diplomat named as Ambassador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Time News Quiz: The Time News Quiz, Oct. 26, 1953 | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

...Half-yearly examinations by doctors are not enough to detect all breast cancers early, said a distaff team from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. As proof that women should learn to examine themselves once a month, they cited seven patients who detected their own breast cancers only a few months after doctors had found nothing wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Eyes, Noses & Necks | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

Celanese Theater (Wed. 10 p.m., ABC). The Distaff Side, with Celia Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, may 12, 1952 | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

Harvard upper-classmen are singing a new version of Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight. They want more time to entertain their dates in dormitories on weekends. At present the distaff side must...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 10/19/1950 | See Source »

Poor "Lizzie" Peabody. "Busybody" might have been a better name. She was such a congenital, selfless do-gooder, almost too perfect a distaff product of New England's 19th Century intellectual flowering. As a child of four in Salem, Mass., she was already envious of Neighbor Nathaniel Hawthorne's sister Ebe, who was six and reading Shakespeare. Twenty-nine years later (1837) when future brother-in-law Nathaniel published his Twice-Told Tales, Liz sang his praises so busily that Hawthorne got tired of her. Once during the Civil War when Liz decided that Abraham Lincoln was running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two Wives & a Spinster | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

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