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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...among them Bulgaria's Tsola Dragoicheva and Jeannette Vermeersch Thorez (sturdy helpmeet of France's Communist leader). A self-declared exception was the U.S.'s small, intense Muriel Draper,* noted dilettante whose salons in London and Manhattan were once brilliantly haunted by the world's famous, from Henry James to Gertrude Stein. Amid her drably dressed fellow delegates she appeared in a white-stitched black linen Clare McCardell creation. She explained that the dress was really quite inexpensive. (She always-has style, rarely has money.) But Comrades Nina Popova and Zinaida Gurina, Russia's loyal...
...Alumni Exercises at 2 o'clock, George Rublee '90, President of the Alumni Association, will preside, and President Conant, Governor Bradford, and the honorary degree winners will give addresses. Last year's Exercises heard Secretary Marshall first expound his world-famous Plan for European recovery...
...Central Park?was as superior to Harrity's other work as it had been to the other fellows'. About all Harrity's other work could boast was that it brought Producer Dowling's wife, Ray Dooley, out of retirement and let her toss in, for oldtimers' sake, her famous Follies routine of a squalling infant. At week's end Hope was a thing of the past...
John William De Forest was so much better than so many writers who are famous that readers may reasonably wonder why they never heard of him before. De Forest was a Connecticut Yankee who married a Charleston girl and raised and captained a Connecticut company throughout the Civil War. His war novel, Miss Ravenel's Conversion (TIME, Aug. 21, 1939)> a failure when first published, went unread for nearly 72 years. His personal story of the Civil War, A Volunteer's Adventures (TIME, July 22, 1946), was published for the first time two years ago. Now it appears...
...only emotional uplift which McTernan claims he gets from serving all this tradition is wonder what famous person will be up front on Commencement Day. For the last two years his bet has been on MacArthur and both times he's been disappointed. But George's faith in the law of averages remains unshaken; his guess for this year is still "Fighting Doug...