Word: janet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Supervising the curtsies is Janet Tell Locke, a tiny, trim old lady with a sprig of holly pinned to her shoulder. Most of the girls know her because she taught them ballroom dancing, and taught their parents before them. She still holds her cotillions, and one of the girls asks her how the classes are going. "Just fine," she replies. "We're teaching the hustle now." Miss Locke has learned the secret of survival...
...Janet C. Corcoran '79, chairman of the Dudley House Committee, said yesterday Dudley House students support the student tavern, but fear problems with noise, crowds, security, interruption of House activities, and loss of House identity...
...Janet F. Hinkley, assistant to the masters of Currier House, said "I wouldn't hold up my directory because of room changes...
...DIED. Janet Planner, 86, writer and correspondent whose "Letter from Paris," by-lined "Genet," appeared regularly in The New Yorker for almost 50 years; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Born in Indianapolis, Planner worked briefly as a newspaper film critic and traveled throughout Europe before settling in Paris in 1922. Three years later, New Yorker Editor Harold Ross hired the American expatriate, and for the next five decades she filed erudite portraits of French society. A graceful, exacting stylist, Planner also wrote profiles on figures as diverse as Adolf Hitler and Queen Mary of England...
...Institute of Politics says it is delighted to have the 38-year-old social activist who offers a perspective "different from anybody else's, and contributes to the richness of our program," Janet Fraser, assistant director of the Institute, said yesterday...