Word: ellen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high-ceilinged back parlor of the Richmond mansion of Virginia's late Novelist Ellen Glasgow, the deans and presidents of twelve colleges and universities in the area gathered one day last week for a kind of meeting that is all too rare in the world of U.S. higher education. All members of the Richmond Area University Center, they had come not only to exchange ideas but to plan a series of projects together that would have been impossible for any one campus to try alone. In the last ten years, the educators had learned an important lesson: the best...
...early in May when Ellen Moore, 22, a pretty young housewife, headed for the Child Welfare Clinic in the bleak Northumberland mining town of Wallsend. Two months pregnant, she had her 16-month-old firstborn, Paul, in his pram. As a truck carrying a load of tree trunks took a nearby corner, one of the lashings parted. A soft, log struck Mrs. Moore a glancing blow on the head, and she fell unconscious...
...expertly staffed General Hospital in Newcastle, five miles away, she was given 48 hours to live. Then, as Ellen Moore kept on fighting for her life, George Frederick Rowbotham, one of Britain's most noted brain specialists, took charge. He had no hope of saving her unborn child, but he hoped to save her life. As his patient's temperature began to rise dangerously, he had her swathed in bags of ice and dosed her with drugs. Her temperature fell to 85°, where it was kept off and on for weeks...
Five weeks ago Ellen Moore regained partial consciousness. Last week, on Ellen Moore's 23rd birthday. Gynecologist Linton Snaith supervised the normal delivery of a normal, healthy boy, 7 Ibs. 12 oz. Though she still did not recognize her husband Kenneth, Mrs. Moore, now back to normal temperature, identified the new arrival and murmured, "I love it. I love my baby...
Chicago's Patroness of Arts Ellen Borden Stevenson, ex-wife of the Democratic presidential candidate, announced that The Egghead and I (a collection of "essays, satirical verse and excerpts from my diaries concerning the 'egghead' in national affairs-a problem we all face") is now "canceled" and will not be published as previously vouchsafed (TIME, Aug. 20). Ellen had pestered many publishers to vent her polemic, but had failed to crash through with a manuscript. Muttered one Chicago literary agent: "She had a good title, and that was about it." Despite her provocative title, Ellen Borden Stevenson...