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...Another distaff diplomat named as Ambassador...
...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...
Celanese Theater (Wed. 10 p.m., ABC). The Distaff Side, with Celia Johnson...
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...
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...