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Utopian Reed began his Eastern adventure by announcing an advisory committee, consisting of Esther Strachey (divorced wife of British Journalist John Strachey), Alfred Bingham, editor of Common Sense, Felix J. Frazer and Harold Loeb. Messrs, Loeb and Frazer were handy associates of Mr. Reed. Last spring they were employed under the auspices of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration to make a National Survey of Potential Product Capacity in the U.S. When FERA gave up supporting the survey, New York City's Public Welfare Department saw it through. Three months ago one researcher, Robert R. Doane, caused a sensation...
...Arturo Toscanini. Stokowski's position in Philadelphia was strengthened materially when his great admirer Curtis Bok lately became president of the Orchestra.* And it is an open secret that Manager Judson is through after this season whether his opera scheme works or not. Philadelphians suspect that smart Esther Everett Lape is being groomed for his job. They know she is no ordinary secretary. For eleven years she has been the brains of the Bok-endowed American Foundation, promoting Peace, the World Court and the recognition of Soviet Russia...
...women is no longer an issue, but the flame of feminism burns as high as ever in Helen Reid's compact breast. Proud is she that no other metropolitan newspaper employs as many female executives. There are Mrs. Helen W. Leavitt, assistant advertising manager; Elsa Lang, promotion director; Esther Kimmel in charge of the Home Economics Department; Books Editor Irita Van Doren; Mary Day Winn, assistant fiction editor; Book Critic Isabel Paterson. And most important, presiding on the ninth floor, Marie Mattingly Meloney...
...that she has tried all the advertised luxuries of life but still "I Couldn't Hold My Man"; 2) lean Frances Williams who sings "Fun To Be Fooled" with bright authority; 3) a pert little body from the night clubs named Dixie Dunbar who kicks and chortles cutely; 4) Esther Junger, a concert dancer, bringing Carnegie Hall technique to frivolous Broadway...
Catherine Esther Beecher (1800-78) was the first member of the family to revolt completely against Calvinism. When her fiancé was drowned in a shipwreck, she declined to believe a preacher who told her "God has answered all his benevolent purposes by his death, and all is well.'' Catherine refuted Jonathan Edwards on free will, denied the doctrine of original sin, and set about improving the educational opportunities of U. S. females. She founded five schools, was one of the first progressive educators, wrote a best-selling treatise on housekeeping...