Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...captivating little lady with a face like a Leonardo drawing, Mrs. Walter B. Cannon is a very extraordinary person whom Harvard could proudly name its matriarch. She has been attached to the community for eighty-two years, as daughter of a Harvard alumnus, Radcliffe undergraduate, wife of a medical school professor, mother of five talented children (three daughters graduated from Radcliffe, one son from Harvard and Medical School), mother-in-law of Professors Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and John Kenneth Fairbank, grandmother of two Harvard freshmen, great-grandmother-to-be of a potential Harvard or Radcliffe student...
...Friend. Overnight, the nation's and world's fears mounted steadily. Why the delay in a report routinely quick in every up-to-date operating room? By Saturday morning the Walter Reed lab had made its final check. Heaton told Mrs. Dulles first. Then he told Dulles. Shortly before 9 a.m. the final word was passed to the President...
...Callaway, 49, organist and choirmaster at Washington Cathedral (Protestant Episcopal), who organized the Opera Society in 1956. In a city that has long been known as a cultural backwater, the company was financed by contributions averaging $100, plus some sizable gifts from Washington society's "cave dwellers," including Mrs. Herbert May (formerly Mrs. Merriweather Post), Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss...
...simultaneous beauty and danger of its own unconscious mechanistic philosophy," scored it for eight pianos and a player piano, bass drums, xylophones, rattles, whistles, electric bells and an airplane propeller. This made him a special favorite of Paris intellectuals, where he knew Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and Mrs. James Joyce, who-Antheil remembered-was always asking her husband, "why he didn't write sensible books . . . why he didn't become a banker . . . why he got egg on the bedspread." Back in the U.S. in the '30s, he wrote film scores (for Ben Hecht, Cecil...
...cannot remember that Gertrude ever expressed any great interest in art or writing. They were more interested in the economic and history courses. They did not seem to have a large or varied acquaintance, either in Boston or in Cambridge, or in the college. I rather gathered that Mrs. Oppenheimer's house was the only pivate home that they had entrance to. They seemed to have money enough to take care of their needs." Jerome E. Weinstein...