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Wellesley's Ola Elizabeth Winslow, 55, Pulitzer Prizewinning biographer (Jonathan Edwards), authority on American literature, who could never walk across the campus without a pocketful of seeds for the birds, catnip for the cats, and a troop of neighbors' children following, Pied Piper fashion, behind. Up at 5, she was a prodigious and painstaking worker, gently persuaded a whole generation of students to take after...
Powers & Poland. Wellesley, in the first year of Margaret Clapp's reign, has a faculty of 130 single women, 28 married women and 53 men. Some are noted in their fields-Johnsonian Scholar Katharine Balderston for her Thraliana, Pulitzer Prizewinner Ola Elizabeth Winslow for her Jonathan Edwards, 1703-1758, Psychologist Edna Heidbreder for her Seven Psychologies. One professor, Mary Ellen Goodman (sociology), is a former Powers model; another, Waclaw Jedrzejewicz (Russian) was a prewar Polish minister of education...
Princess Ibrahim Hassan, 73, aunt-by-marriage of Egypt's King Farouk, was on relief in Manhattan. She told all, after breaking her shoulder in a fall. It seems that in 1907, as Actress Ola Jane Humphries, she had married Farouk's uncle, retired to live "on a rose-tinted cloud." The cloud burst in 1918, when the Prince died. The Egyptian Government grabbed her husband's $14 million estate and all her jewels. In 14 years of suits, the Princess had acquired nothing but a viewpoint: "I think anyone makes a great mistake in giving...
...depreciation. Under his "package" financing plan, the buyer pays a small amount monthly into a depreciation fund. So he has the cash for painting, etc. when he needs it; the mortgage holder has it also, if he has to take over and fix up the house. To date, Home-Ola has had little trouble with building unions about getting its houses put up, although some cities (Paterson, N.J. and Jackson, Mich.) have barred it because of zoning restrictions. The house can be erected in three days by three or four nonprofessionals. Jacques's daughter Jacqueline put up the first...
...devised his own weatherproof plywood. During the war, the Air Corps alone used 30 million board feet of it and, to date, Willis has sold more plywood to lumber dealers than anybody else. Some of his plywood profits, about $200,000 last year, were plowed back into Home-Ola. But his real ace in the hole is the interest he owns in two plywood companies. While shortages are squeezing other prefabricators, Home-Ola has all the basic material it needs...