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...Ida Scudder's last idea was to spend her life in India-even though it might be the Scudder family tradition. As a child in India, the daughter and granddaughter of Reformed Church medical missionaries, she saw all too much famine, poverty and disease. After a Massachusetts seminary, Ida aimed to get married and settle down...
...early 20s, Ida Scudder went back to India to help her ailing mother. One night, as she sat alone in the mission bungalow at Tindivanam, a Brahman came to the door with a tale of woe. His child wife was in labor, and the midwives had given up hope of saving her. Would Miss Scudder come to the rescue? Ida said that she was not a doctor, but that her father would be glad to help. The Brahman, shocked at the idea of violating purdah, bridled: "Your father come into my caste home and take care of my wife...
Although there had been rumblings of opposition, only two Senators, Case (R.S.D.) and Dworshak (R.-Ida.), voted against confirmation. Case contended that a speech Conant made in 1944 advocating strict control of German industry after World War II raised "grave doubts" as to whether he could be effective in the post...
Married. Joan Fontaine, 35, cinemactress (Rebecca, Ivanhoe); and Collier Young, 44, Hollywood producer; both for the third time (her first: Actor Brian Aherne; his second: Cinemactress Ida Lupmo); after a slapstick beginning (he lost the license, she lost her trousseau, both missed their honeymoon plane); in Saratoga, Calif...
...outclassed by Smith (149), Colby Junior College (112), Mount Holyoke (92), Skidmore (86), Wellesley (79), Bradford Junior (28), Vassar (27), Connecticut College for Women (26), and Green Mountain Junior College (25). A preliminary examination revealed that Radcliffe was also outnumbered by The University of Massachusetts, Simmons, Boston University, Mount Ida, and LaSalle, all of which placed in the teens...