Word: hortons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night in 1914, fire broke out in College Hall. By morning, the hall ("a palace!" a visiting male had observed) was a ruin. In its place rose modern Wellesley. Stately President Ellen Fitz Pendleton and her electric brougham were succeeded by trim Mildred McAfee Horton and her Pontiac. When President Horton, wartime head of the Navy's WAVES, resigned last year to help her husband, the Rev. Douglas Horton, with his work for the Congregational Christian Churches, Wellesley went looking for a Margaret Clapp...
...thing she was in for: raising money (Wellesley was after $7½ million, Barnard $5,000,000, Smith $7,000,000). She would find little comfort in the fact that all her fund-raisers are women. What U.S. women need, former President Horton had found, is a "psychological catching-up" about money. "They are too used to writing out household checks-for $10 or $20. The trouble is that you can't run a college on household checks...
...Fundamental Incompatibility." Elected moderator of the International Council was Dr. Douglas Horton, whose wife, the former Mildred McAfee, commanding officer of the WAVES during the war, retires this week after 14 years as president of Wellesley. Headquarters of the worldwide group will be in London. There, council affairs will be administered by Britain's genial Dr. Sidney M. Berry, whose new job as secretary of the organization carries a salary of $4,000 a year...
...barred teachers, but also any textbooks that the Regents might consider subversive. The House Committee on Un-American Activities had called on 107 colleges to send in full lists of their textbooks for investigation. "I suppose this must include the Bible," cracked Wellesley's retiring President Mildred McAfee Horton...
Hardy Perennials. Already busy, milking her Broadway hit and getting the season's top salary ($5,000 a week), is Tallulah Bankhead in Private Lives. Summer Veteran Edward Everett Horton, who has played Springtime for Henry perennially (at a profit of about $1,000,000), will give the old comedy a rest in favor of Present Laughter. Some of the other country hands: Helen Hayes (in a tryout of William McCleery's Good Housekeeping), Paul Lukas, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Eva Le Gallienne, Basil Rathbone, Mady Christians, Ann Harding, Elisabeth Bergner, Joan Blondell, Bert Lahr, Kay Francis...