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Frances C.M. Donovan '28, a student at Radcliffe during Cronkhite's term as dean, remembers the administrator as "extremely thoughtful and kindly to individual students." A warm woman with a good sense of humor, Cronkhite took a personal interest in her students, Donovan added.
The Atlantic editor who accepted this schmaltz as authentic was Ellery Sedgwick, then 56. One of the most respected men of letters of his day, he was married to a Cabot and had graduated from Groton and Harvard. The conspirator who befuddled his judgment was Wilma Frances Minor, then 42...
In The Gastronomical Me, the 1943 book that established Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher as America's most inspired food writer, the author hinted at loftier intentions. People often asked her, she said, why she wrote about eating and drinking. In answer, she conceded that she was hungry, "like most...
Three award winners: > Morris High, the South Bronx, New York. When Frances Vazquez, 35, became the principal of Morris in 1979, the school was racked by violence. Located in one of the most depressed neighborhoods in the nation, Morris had an enrollment of 1,700 pupils that was 35% black...
Except for Gandhi, most of the major winners were hardly surprises. Meryl Streep was named Best Actress for her dazzling performance as the doomed survivor of the Nazi camps in Sophie's Choice. Ben Kingsley won the Best Actor award for his uncanny portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi; Louis Gossett...