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Many Georgia women cannot understand frequent references to Madame Chiang Kai-shek as a Wellesley alumna when they remember her as a student at Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga. Here are the facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 15, 1937 | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

Madame Chiang, as Mei-ling Soong, graduated from Wellesley College at Wellesley, Mass., in 1917, as you state in your issue of Jan. 25. She came to Macon, Ga., however, as a little girl of 10 with her sisters. (Madame H. H. Kung, Soong Eling, graduated at Wesleyan in 1909; Madame Sun Yatsen, Soong Ching-ling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 15, 1937 | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...names in 1908: "Mei-ling Soong, Shanghai, China, aged 10." She was privately tutored by a member of the faculty, Miss Margie Burks. During the next four years she spent most of her time under the tutelage of Miss Burks. One year she was at school at Demorest, Ga., in a junior college. In 1912-13 she was regularly enrolled as a freshman at Wesleyan College, and successfully completed the work of this class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 15, 1937 | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...Macon, Ga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 15, 1937 | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...enjoin Curtiss Airports Corp. of Cleveland from infringing on their property rights, claiming that low-flying Curtiss planes disturbed them, by their noise and by dropping leaflets. The court ordered the airmen to cease dropping things. In 1934, on the other hand, Clovis Thrasher sued the city of Atlanta, Ga., charging that it permitted planes to fly too low, endangering him. and annoying him by the dust they stirred up. He lost the case. And in the same year a similar suit was dismissed in Pennsylvania with the ruling: "Invasions of the air space are trespass only when they interfere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: New and Romantic | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

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