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Word: helene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...women's colleges. Smith's girls adore him and hope that his successor also will be a man. Wellesley's girls are proud of woman's intellectual stature, of their comely campus on a lake, and of their young woman president, Mildred Helen McAfee, 39. Missouri-born and Vassar-educated, Miss McAfee taught in progressive schools, was dean of women at Oberlin before she became Wellesley's president in 1936. Tall, athletic, curly-haired, President McAfee likes to write detective stories in her spare time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: TEN TYPICAL AND ATYPICAL COLLEGE PRESIDENTS | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...night last March in San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel, a whiskey bottle cracked the red head of a beauty named Helen De Vine, whose mother runs a duck hatchery. Miss De Vine told police that her bland, baby-faced boyfriend, Mark Lee Megladdery, and one Samuel J. Hume were tippling with her when Hume swung at Megladdery and Miss De Vine forgot to duck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Duck Soup | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...lady in your household is ever compelled to hold a press conference, entreat her not to condescend to newspaper women.-Columnist Helen Essary in the Washington Times-Herald (in an open letter "to the next British Ambassador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: His Majesty's Press Agent | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...Barre, Pa.John Ordway II Dorothea Thomas, Portland, Me.Donald Ottenstein Delphine Wofsey, Stamford, Conn.Thomas C. Peebles Patricia Taylor, Newton CenterRobert E. Pittis Sally Bradford, Washington, D. C.John D. Philipsborn Elizabeth Monigomery, ChicagoJames E. Price II Ann Tarbell, LincolnJohn F. Prudden Ruth May, BeverlyHenry W. Reed Nancy Parker, LowellEugene J. Reilly Helen Keyes, HullJohn C. Robbins, Jr. Hephizibah McWeebles, Dunkling-in-CharlesPaul C. Rodgers Jr. Elizabeth McCarthy, Syracuse, N. Y.Melvin H. Rodman Phyllis Ourieff, BrooklineRochester H. Rogers Jr. Margery Williams, WorcesterJoseph Romano Catherine Pindo, BrooklynWilliam L. Roney Virginia Reed, Long IslandWalter N. Rothschild Polly Faulkner, CambridgeWilbur H. Sawyer Lois Greaser, Haddenfield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 160 Will Bring Girls to '42 Jubilee Tonight | 5/26/1939 | See Source »

Best singles score among the 1,500 lady bowlers: 626 (for three games), rolled by Detroit's Helen Hengstler. Best singles score among the 7,000 male pin-topplers: 730, chalked up by 59-year-old James Danek of Forest Park, Ill. Other congressional high marks: women's doubles, 1,130; men's doubles, 1,405; five-woman team, 2,618; five-man team, 3,151; women's all-events, 1,724; men's all-events, 2,028. Top-notch women bowlers use the 16-lb. ball, same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pin Topplers | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

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