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...Other well-known Mrs. Know-it-alls: CBS's Adelaide Hawley; NBC's Mary Margaret McBride, Blue's Nancy Craig...
...They all had accents," the pretty 19-year-old ingenue said of her abductors, over an old-fashioned at McBride's. Further inquiry revealed that these were not samples of speech from Groton, Nebraska, or even from Brooklyn. "No, they were South American, I think...I can't remember the boys' names; it all happened too fast." A rapid peeling off of the House names revealed that the arrant gentlemen were from Dunster...
Bryn Mawr College followed Bryn Mawr tradition and last week chose a scholar to be its fourth president: Alumna Katharine Elizabeth McBride, who at 37 became one of the youngest college presidents...
Katharine ("Kay") McBride faces a formidable intellectual tradition, personified in the minds of Bryn Mawr women in the fearsome figure of the college's second president, the late, great Dr. M. Carey Thomas. Still the most intellectual U.S. women's college, one of the toughest for a girl to get into and stay in, Bryn Mawr retains the stamp of Dr. Thomas although she retired 20 years...
...such dragon as Dr. Thomas is Katharine McBride. Tall, low-voiced, self-effacing, Miss McBride is a quiet research scholar in neurology. She got three degrees at Bryn Mawr (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.), steps up to Bryn Mawr's presidency from the deanship of Radcliffe. But from Bryn Mawr, Dr. Thomas and Dr. Park, Miss McBride acquired a profound respect for scholarship. Said she last week: "One of the things I like best about Bryn Mawr is that they expect scholarly work of the students. . . . [Such] students . . . seem much better equipped . . to live in a world of changes like this...