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...daughter of a doctor, and married to a doctor, Leslie Kent was left a widow with a three-year-old child. Then she gave up the drugstore that she and her husband had owned in Lincoln, Neb., parked her child with friends and enrolled in the Lincoln Medical College...
When she graduated, Dr. Kent moved west. In 1919 she went to work in a 25-bed hospital in Harrisburg, Ore., eventually took charge of it. Later, as a country
Last week Dr. Kent, 66, became the first woman in the U.S. to be elected president of a state medical society. A grandmother now, she still works a full schedule and keeps her regular practice. She has been president of her county medical society, and has organized a statewide series of refresher courses in obstetrics and pediatrics. But when asked why she was chosen president of the Oregon State Medical Society, modest Dr. Kent replies: "I really don't know...
...their wares. On stage, the actors hammed their way through Ten Nights in a Barroom. It was melodrama at its drammiest that was being performed in an Ohio river port last week. And that was just the way the professor wanted it. Professor Harry Wright of Ohio's Kent State University had gone to a lot of trouble to get the right atmosphere...
Riverboat Captain Tom Reynolds, who wasn't much interested in gathering material for a thesis, was willing to navigate his 27-year-old showboat Majestic for the professor during the summer. Professor Wright signed on 22 Kent State and Hiram College students as actors and crew. Then he set sail for a twelve-week cruise up & down the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers. Each morning in port, the students pick the night's hero, choose the villain, and who shall sell tickets and popcorn. Then they parade down the town's main street, drumming up trade...