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...Presbyterian Council of Women. "Why," she asks, "do women think they must wash on Mondays? In the same way why are people prejudiced against the equality of women in the church since they have it in the state?" Better than anything else, though she once was a golf enthusiast at Englewood, N. ]., she loves motoring. To many a church meeting she drives with cautious but considerable speed in her Franklin automobile. Miss Margaret Hodge has the patrician quietude often associated with the aristocracy of her native city, Philadelphia. She, too, drives, but, instead of a Franklin, she steers a Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Presbyterian Women | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Died. Theodore Frelinghuysen Merseles, 65, of Bronxville, N. Y., president of the Johns-Manville Corp., onetime president of Montgomery Ward & Co., onetime bicycle enthusiast & manufacturer, native of Jersey City, N. J.; of heart disease; in Del Monte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...sang the heart of Richard Hovey, Dartmouth '85. Now Dartmouth wants the Hovey words set to music, and an anonymous enthusiast has offered $1,000 to any composer, regardless of creed or college, who submits the best, most fitting tune to Judges Channing Cox, '01, of Boston, onetime Governor of Massachusetts; Nelson P. Brown, '09, of Everett, Mass.; and Charles E. Griffith, '15, of Newark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hymn for Dartmouth | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...February 10. Newman and Carlyle. The former's was a feminine nature, which first decides and then finds reasons for hav-ing decided. He was an enthusiast with the absurd reputation of a logician and reasoner. Carlyle was a poet with the reputation of a philosopher. Neither was truly a thinker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Alive Enough | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Divorced. James Cash Penney, Jr., glider enthusiast, son of the famed chain store tycoon and devout Methodist benefactor of Whiteplains, N. Y., & Miami; by Marie Louise du Coudray Penney of Manhattan. Two days after their marriage in 1924 the Penneys were separated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

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