Word: helene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election was a special one called to choose a successor to Mrs. Helen Maynard who resigned last month. Mrs. Maynard moved up from the vice-presidential spot last spring upon the resignation of Elwyn Wyman from the top position...
...Harvard is then holly wrong. Wendell Furry has defied the United States Government and refused to answer questions on the ground that to do so would tend to incriminate him thereby proclaiming himself unfit to teach. How long would Harvard tolerate a criminal in its student body? Sincerely, Helen Lee Woodward West Orange, New York
Medallion Theater (Sat. 10 p.m., CBS). Helen Hayes in Battle Hymn...
Fond of her gentle mother, fearful of her bluff, cruel father, Helen Angus is romping through her teens with artless innocence when Ratoons begins. Then the hothouse climate brings her emotions to quick bloom; she falls in love with a half-Boer boy named Chris and soon is pregnant. Before she can nerve herself to tell anyone, Chris departs for the Boer War, and Helen's mother, herself pregnant, dies while giving birth to a puny boy. When the child dies, Helen's father substitutes Helen's illegitimate baby for his own Nicky...
...years march by, Helen acquires a gift for juggling the happiness of the three men in her life. Without letting him know that he is her own son, she brings Nicky up well; she runs her father's household and patiently retrieves him from the shacks of native women. As for Chris, she meets and sleeps with him occasionally, never pressing him to offer marriage. For the Helens of this world, Novelist Rooke implies, selflessness can prove its own richest reward...