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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ward Leigh is famed for many miles about Nyack, N. Y. as the lady who lives in a glass house surrounded by a high wire fence and never eats meat. Late one night last week, firemen answered an alarm at Mrs. Leigh's home. Reaching the wire fence they could not enter. Politely they phoned credentials (by a telephone at the outer gate); firmly they insisted that they were authentic firemen; were at length given entrance. Mrs. Ward Leigh they found seated before a large sirloin steak. Querulously she told them not to break the glass of her house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 11, 1928 | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...results of a poll of the undergraduates of Harvard and other colleges concerning their views on companionate marriage not only in general but also among students, will be made today by a representative of the Leigh-Emmerich Lecture Bureau, which is in charge of the Lindsey-Crane debate tomorrow evening at Symphony Hall, regarding this subject. In the questionnaire sent out, the students were asked whether they believed in companionate marriage, and if they do believe in it whether they would adopt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLL WILL SOUND STUDENTS ON COMPANIONATE MARRIAGE | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...open next year, announced last week that they will provide "a curriculum planned to prepare women to meet the problems of the modern world." Other aims: emphasis on the individual, learning through living, community life, breaking down barriers between teacher and student, a selfsupporting college. Robert Devore Leigh, professor of government at Williams, will be president. Trustee James Colby Col- gate has given a building site at the foot of the Taconic range near the village of Old Bennington, Vermont. Proposed endowment: $1,000,000. Cash in hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Strenuous | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

...Elected. Leigh Richmond Powell Jr., 43, to be President of the Seaboard Air Line Railway in Baltimore; to succeed the late Solomon Davies Warfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 28, 1927 | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

Doctor-etchers: Percy Friedberg, Leigh H. Hunt, Hermann Fischer, all of New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctor Artists | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

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