Word: edna
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Radcliffe's basketball team tied a Pembroke squad, 23 to 23 yesterday, while the 'Cliffe swimming club lost to Pembroke by a 3 margin, 40.6 to 40.3. Julie Jansen '53 placed first in two swimming events, and Edna Bogardus '54 was high basketball scorer for the 'Cliffe...
...list of "bourgeois" books banned by Communist Hungary now neared the 700 mark. Among the forbidden authors: Louis Bromfield, Edna Ferber, Fannie Hurst, John P. Marquand, P. G. Wodehouse, Marcel Proust. Specifically mentioned as objectionable: Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan stories, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, James Hilton's Lost Horizon, Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People...
...Edna Rose Ritchings, "celestial" white wife of Negro Cultist Father Divine, told Ebony magazine that many people "wonder if we are happy together living lives of purity and chastity . . ." Wrote Mother Divine: "I am as virtuous today as the day Father took me unto himself as his spotless bride ... To be daily in the presence... is the most glorious privilege any human being could have ... I am a sample and example for all to copy if they desire to be supernaturally and eternally blessed . . . Father Divine ... is greater than any atomic or hydrogen bomb...
Chatting with Novelist Edna Ferber, Alice Longworth, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, recalled a recent illness in an isolated western cabin: "There was a foot and a half of snow outside, and my temperature was 103. Of course, I had my own aureomycin with me, but I thought, 'Wouldn't it be strange if I died here in this log cabin?' " Quipped Author Ferber, "Just think what the headline writers would have done with the story. I can see it now, 'From White House to Log Cabin...
...Died. Edna St. Vincent Milky, 58, fragile, elf-eyed poet laureate of the Golden Twenties; of a heart attack; in Austerlitz, N.Y. Daughter of a poor schoolteacher, Edna Millay was put through Vassar by a patron who admired her youthful verse. After graduation (at 25) she lived among the very poor, "very merry" bohemians of Greenwich Village, had a" fling at acting (she was briefly a Provincetown Player), wrote short stories (for Vanity Fair under the name Nancy Boyd). With the bittersweet impudence of her second book of verse, A Few Figs from Thistles ("Safe upon the solid rock...