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Yung Wang, button-cute "Helen Hayes of China," was studying at Bryn Mawr. At 26, the prewar cinema star had an age of peril behind her. She had been caught by the Jap invasion of Hong Kong, slipped out disguised as a ragged halfwit, ultimately made a 40-day hairbreadth journey to the safety of Chungking. For two years she had entertained troops, lived in the front lines, traveled on foot with a force that moved so exclusively at night that it became known as "The Cat's Eye Army." But last week at Bryn Mawr she still looked...
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Outside the East most of our women editors and researchers were co-eds counted above-but most of the women's colleges are represented here too: Smith (17 graduates), Vassar (12), Wellesley (9), Radcliffe (6), Bryn Mawr (5)-Sweet Briar, Mount Holyoke, Hunter, Skidmore and Sarah Lawrence...
...revealed not in Leningrad but in Philadelphia, where a pleasant, grey-haired old lady named Nadejda Galli-Shohat had been living obscurely, after teaching physics at the University of Michigan, Bryn Mawr and Mount Holyoke. A U.S. resident since 1923, Nadejda Galli-Shohat, though she had never said much about it, is Shostakovich's aunt...
...Place Like Home. Briggsy was a horrifying bowser of a Bryn Mawr graduate-a Philadelphia Main Liner, piddler in photography, a breeder of Scottish terriers. Briggsy was abetted by her Ma and Pa, who lined Jimbo-Jumbo's "den" with photographs of clipper ships; by her bouncing redheaded sisters, Franzie, Pollsie and Nellsie...