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Farmington's alumnae-they are called "ancients"-include Classicist Edith Hamilton, Mrs. Allen Dulles, Mrs. Douglas Dillon and Mrs. John F. Kennedy, who arrived at 15 with her mare Danseuse. She got an A-minus average and repeated warnings that she could do better...
Refusing to answer, Snow found plenty of defenders. Author William Gerhardi called Leavis "the Himmler of Literature," Dame Edith Sitwell suggested that Leavis was jealous of Snow's fame, and Lord Boothby (former rector of St. Andrews) wrote in the Spectator: "There are plenty of beetles in Cambridge. But, without doubt, Dr. Leavis has now qualified for the post of Chief Beetle." Yet, although one critic called Snow's novels "intellectual soap opera," few discussed Leavis' basic concern, the tendency of technology to suffocate humanities...
House delegates to the newly-formed Radcliffe Government Association are Edith A. Dudley '68, Joanne M. Pearson '63, and Andrea M. Peterson '64, of North, South, and East Houses respectively...
...House of Lords in London, Lady Edith Summerskill, a doctor and a former Laborite minister, renewed her efforts to ban professional fighting in Britain. She placed a question in the House demanding either prohibition of fighting contests or criminal prosecution against promoters charging them with incitement to manslaughter...
...Baffling and perverse and irreverent as it is," wrote Stanley Koven in the National Observer, "Oh Dad sweeps its audience up and gallops off on a kind of Marx Brothers excursion into the avant-grade." Calling it "a perverse comic nightmare" in the New Yorker, Edith Oliver stated. "Seldom can a production have more effectively carried out the ideas of a playwright than this...