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Ohio's century-old Marietta College was founded by strait-laced Congregationalists, and it has never quite cottoned to some of the newfangled freedoms. Marietta's trustees didn't like it when President William A. Shimer, 53, got a divorce a year ago. They disapproved even more when Shimer began courting Dean of Women Dorothy Blair, 36, and someone printed on the wall outside his house: "Dottie loves Willie-Willie loves Dottie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Willie Loves Dottie | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

...Marietta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 12, 1946 | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...Naughty Marietta" (Mon. 10 p.m., CBJ5). The Screen Guild players condense Victor Herbert's operetta into half an hour, starring Allan Jones and Irene Manning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jul. 29, 1946 | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...clay country around Marietta, Ga. an old story was retold. An ancient and destitute woman had scrabbled for years in one of the town's back streets. One day she took sick and a squad of church ladies moved in, tidied her shack, bathed her, dressed her in clean clothes and tucked her into a clean bed. When they called next day, they found the old woman and her bed back in the familiar rags. "I just wasn't comfortable," she explained. "I'll have to git used to them clean clothes gradual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Comfortable Again | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...loans. But they got the Government interested. In record time, U.S. Homes got: 1) $175,000 in loans from RFC; 2) machinery and equipment from the War Assets Administration; 3) a lease on 80,000 square feet of space in the surplus 58-acre B-29 plant at Marietta. Eighty-one more veterans were taken in on the original terms, thus bringing the company's total capital close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Venture for Veterans | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

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