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...Died. Maud Charlesworth Booth, 82, national commander of the Volunteers of America, known as "the little mother of the prison world" for her work in prison reform and the rehabilitation of ex-convicts; in Great Neck, N.Y. Married in 1887 to the son of the Salvation Army's founder, she and her husband left the Salvation Army in 1896 to found the Volunteers, which eventually, in the U.S., grew to rival its parent organization...
...Died. Maud Alice ("Emerald"), Lady Cunard, seventyish, famed Chicago-born hostess of Edwardian England's literary & artistic set, and later a boon companion of Edward VIII and Wally Simpson; of pleurisy and cancer; in London. A sometime intimate friend of Novelist George Moore and Symphony Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, Emerald married Steamship Heir Sir Bache Edward Cunard in 1895, came to view with imperturbability the diatribes of her ultra-radical daughter Nancy...
...Thirty-eight-year-old Mrs. Maud Ethel Pope went to an Atlanta hospital complaining of a backache, explained that she was expecting her 22nd child and had overexerted herself digging a 25-ft. well and building a house...
...gift, with string attached, came from United Fruit Co.'s President Samuel Zemurray, no Harvardman himself. A committee of Harvard professors, representing departments from fine arts to physics, solemnly scoured all available corridors of learning for a suitable candidate. They finally found her in England: Dr. Helen Maud Cam, 62, a tweedy, vigorous history don at Cambridge (her specialty: medieval local government). She would be the first woman professor of arts & sciences in Harvard's 312 years...
Until she was 19, Helen Maud never went to school; her father, a parson and schoolmaster, tutored her at home. She learned enough to win a scholarship at the University of London, has been leading a serenely academic life ever since...