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...Wellesley, in the first year of Margaret Clapp's reign, has a faculty of 130 single women, 28 married women and 53 men. Some are noted in their fields-Johnsonian Scholar Katharine Balderston for her Thraliana, Pulitzer Prizewinner Ola Elizabeth Winslow for her Jonathan Edwards, 1703-1758, Psychologist Edna Heidbreder for her Seven Psychologies. One professor, Mary Ellen Goodman (sociology), is a former Powers model; another, Waclaw Jedrzejewicz (Russian) was a prewar Polish minister of education...
Maurice Evans and Edna Best change their peace from a mismatched couple filled with hate for each other, in the first one-act play of Terrance Rattigan's "Double Bill," to a madcap theatrical team in the second...
Happily, Mr. Evans' operatic tendencies were not in evidence (except in the second play where they were quite in order), and he performed subtlely and sensitively, with his usual technical excellence. His wife, an equally complex but less developed character, was portrayed with understanding by Edna Best. A competent cast supported the stars in both plays...
...Edna Ruggles did, in sooth, have a protest. She was fired by the Indianapolis Glove Co. at Marion, Ind. for uttering loud and profane reflections on the ancestry of her glove machine. Edna and her union (the A.F.L.'s International Glove Workers) protested to Louis Plost, Chicago trial examiner of the National Labor Relations Board. After due reflection, Examiner Plost last week handed down his decision...
...Edna Ruggles, Plost decided, her "vulgar expressions . . . were not in any sense real blasphemy" and she should get her job back...