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...four dances may be going on in one evening, and the management hopes that the girls will come back some day for their weddings. Around Long Beach, Calif., one of the most popular prom spots is aboard the Queen Mary, now serving as a floating hostelry in her genteel retirement. The ballrooms of the onetime grande dame of the North Atlantic are crowded with ten or so dances a week, and the demand is so high, says Scheduler Ann Hunter, "that we are already booking proms...
...play the game and then to outguess them so most were not either wincing or shutting their eyes when the time came to shoot." The results rank among the greatest camera portraits ever taken, calmly relentless in their inspection of face and pose, profoundly sympathetic, and wholly unlike the genteel aestheticism of Alfred Stieglitz and the photosecessionists. They were, to use one of Hine's favorite adjectives, "straight...
...Yale exactly, offering no more opportunities to explore their experiences as women than the male schools did. Women in literature and history were as neglected at Mount Holyoke as they were at Harvard; the only addition to the classic curriculum were courses in music and deportment, "necessary" courses for genteel young ladies. "More to the point" than the inevitable triumph of male aggressiveness, Baker argues, "may be female passiveness, deference, if you will, which is a prominent feature not only of the women's-college academic life but also of the organized extra-curricular life--and by a simple effort...
...company's directors to combine the position with her own. Graham. 59, is also seeking to acquire another magazine. She lost out to Australian Rupert Murdoch in bidding last month for New York (TIME cover. Jan. 17), but she is now trying to buy The New Yorker, that genteel and profitable weekly. Said a Post Co. insider. "It depends on when they want to sell...
...there is also Frances Hallam Hurt's view of Chatham. The epitome of the genteel Southern lady, she sees Chatham, from the vantage point of her nearby estate, as "the last outpost of the good life-and surprisingly kind...