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...Vining, a Quaker graduate of Germantown Friends School and Bryn Mawr (cum laude), once taught English at a girls' school, library science at the University of North Carolina. In recent years she has written historical romances and biographies for teenagers. A childless widow, she publishes under her maiden name, Elizabeth Janet Gray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mrs. Vining & the Prince | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

...stories in The Friendly Persuasion are written in much the same amiable, gently humorous vein. Give it to your Ma in Germantown, before she takes off for the further shore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Music on the Muscatatuck | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

...that vox humana! . . . You can hear the voice of your lost child in it. Did you ever lose a child, Brother Birdwell?" "No," said Jess. "[Then] you can hear the voice of your old mother calling to you from the further shore," said the professor. "Ma lives in Germantown," said Jess. "Wet your whistle," cried the professor, taking a long swig from a flask, "and we'll sing it [The Old Musician and His Harp] through together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Music on the Muscatatuck | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

Married. Gwladys Sheleagh Boake Carter, 19, daughter of Newscaster Boake Carter, whose scripts are under investigation by the FCC for anti-union bias; and Ensign James Wallace Jr., 21, Philadelphia socialite; in Germantown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 21, 1944 | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

JAMES EMLEN Germantown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 31, 1944 | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

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