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...Wisconsin's centennial year there are 18,623 students enrolled at Madison, from Edna Aaness to Norris Zvniecki, from 47 states and 57 countries. About one-fourth of them are girls.* The centennial's bumper crop had outgrown dormitories, boarding houses, and the fraternities and sororities on Langdon Street, spilling over into Army barracks, an ordnance works and three trailer camps. It now costs about $1,000 a year to go to college in Madison, for board, room and tuition, with not much left over for beer, dates and phonograph records...
Married. David Aiken Reed, 68, onetime Old Guard Republican Senator from Pennsylvania, onetime chairman of the Military Affairs Committee and delegate to the 1930 London Naval Conference; and Edna M. French, 64, his late wife's cousin; he for the second time, she for the first; in New Canaan, Conn...
...Simeon Strunsky and Jan Struther nearly a column and a half apiece but would it not have been better to allow more room for Ernest Hemingway (one), E. M. Forster (4/5), Lytton Strachey (½) and a shade less to Editor Christopher Morley (four)? Similarly, 5¼ columns for Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay seem extravagant in a book that spares less than two to Leo Tolstoy, one column to V. I. Lenin and less than one to James Joyce, twelve lines to Scott Fitzgerald, 13 to André Gide, five to James Thurber, one to Sidney and Beatrice Webb...
Bravo! (by Edna Ferber & George S. Kaufman; produced by Max Gordon) is about a group of distinguished Middle European refugees who share a shabby Manhattan brownstone. An archduchess turned dressmaker, a Habsburg turned salesman, a jurist peddling candy, a ballet dancer spewing venom, a famous playwright and actress (Oscar Homolka & Lili Darvas) on their uppers-they are bitter and sweet, grumbling and gallant, some taking misfortune in their stride, some wearing Budapest on their sleeve. In time most of them find their mate or their metier; while those whom the immigration authorities threaten with tragedy are saved by a phone...
...Edna, the cause of it all, is "in charge of production and merchandising." A third sister, Louise ("Tootsie"), who joined the team after finishing college, in 1941, now does all the designing. Last week the sisters had a new number they thought exciting: a Page Boy convertible. A few simple alterations transform it into a stylish post-maternity dress. Tootsie, recently married and pregnant, made the perfect model...