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More adopted daughters than any other ruler has Dictator Kamal Ataturk, abolisher of Turkish harems. Last week one of his five adopted daughters, Miss Zehra, petite and brown-eyed with jet-black bobbed hair, tumbled from a Calais-Paris express, fractured her skull, died. Said the English Headmistress of St. Margaret's school near London: "We did not have the slightest notion that she was homesick. She seemed intensely interested in the theatre...
Died. Valentine Laura Chandor, 59, headmistress of Manhattan's swank Spence School, founder of the Chandor School which merged with Spence three years ago (TIME, May 16, 1932); in Manhattan...
...Chicago, as a wanderer in the Deep South. At intervals he taught dramatics at North Carolina Agriculture & Engineering College, Branch Normal (Arkansas) and Flipper-Key College (Oklahoma). Mostly he made his headquarters around Haines Institute at Augusta, Ga. At commencement time he would put on plays. In return, Headmistress Lucy Laney literally kept him from starving during the rest of the year. She died the day that The Green Pastures came to Augusta...
Married. Dr. Harvey Nathaniel Davis, 53, president of Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, N. J.); and Helen Clarkson Miller, 55, his third wife, social and economic research expert, long-time executive and headmistress from 1929 to 1932 of socialite Spence School; in Manhattan...
Appointed Brearley's headmistress in 1930 was Millicent Carey, onetime English professor and acting dean at Bryn Mawr. Young, personable, friendly, moderately progressive, Headmistress Carey increased her popularity with students in 1932 by marrying able Pediatrician Rustin McIntosh, sent it sky-high last year when she bore twin boys...