Word: gwendolyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gwendolyn Brigham '53 and Ann Burkett '54 will direct the Radcliffe Song Fest next month, it was announced yesterday. The traditional song contest will be held October...
Interviewed for the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune, Washington's No. 1 unofficial hostess Gwendolyn Cafritz carefully explained why she does not invite Mr. & Mrs. Harry Truman to her parties: "I never invited Mr. Truman when he was a Senator, which was my mistake. I never had anything against him. It's just that I never thought the Trumans attracted me. I only ask people that are really exciting. Besides, Mr. Truman doesn't like to talk to ladies." How about Senator Joe McCarthy? "Joe's a friend of mine, but I haven...
...Gwendolyn Cafritz, Washington's No. 1 hostess since Perle Mesta turned diplomat, tried her hand at writing a guest column for the New York Daily News: "All of us in Washington, surrounded by so many clever people, are consciously patriotic . . . If you go to those much maligned cocktail parties, a typical day might include four between 6 and 8 p.m. They are not exactly mischief and fun, but good conversation and partisan information on the topic of the day . . . the excellence of the Kress collection, or the intellectual brilliance of the Secretary of State. As you go from...
...Mary Gwendolyn Brigham '53 of Montclair, New Jersey and Moors Hall, was elected captain of the Radcliffe swimming team this week. Miss Brigham placed first in two events Wednesday in the Radcliffe-Pembroke swimming meet: the 25-yard breast stroke and the freestyle for form...
...winners: Gian-Carlo Menotti, best music, in The Consul (TIME, May 1); South Pacific, best play; A. B. Guthrie, best novel, The Way West; Samuel Flagg Bemis, best biography, John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy; O. W. Larkin, best history, Art and Life in America; Gwendolyn Brooks, best poetry, Annie Allen; Seattle Times Reporter Edwin O. Guthman, best national reporting, in clearing a professor of Communist charges (TIME, Nov. 7); Christian Science Monitor Correspondent Edmund Stevens, best international reporting, on Russia; Chicago Daily News and St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for public service in exposing Illinois newsmen...