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Classes in Living. A pert redhead named Marian McGregor, shocked at the general loneliness she encountered, started the Spartan Wives last spring. She and some friends of hers invited other campus wives to get together for picnics and "homemaking" sessions. By fall the idea had spread so far that the wives had to hold a mass meeting in a college ballroom to elect officers. The college detailed a woman professor and the director of adult education extension to help...
...Women's doubles: Miss Hart and Barbara Scofield, a pert little University of Miami (Fla.) girl with freckles and pigtails, who pouts when she misses, pirouettes when she scores, and almost clouts the cover off the ball...
...Pert Nicky Raphaelson, Radcliffe '50, showed her espirit de corps as she declared, "Anything for Shaw. Mendy will do a superb job, but he'll have to cut bangs, I'm afraid...
...described by Novelist Rawlings as a scrawny, narrow-shouldered runt), is acted with clean competence-a mite too clean -by handsome Gregory Peck, 6ft. 3 in. Glum, discouraged Ma Baxter is impersonated with affecting skill by Jane Wyman, whose talents have been wasted for years by Warner Bros, in pert ingénue roles. But even in scrubbed, unlipsticked make-up Miss Wyman's trim face & figure are a glamorized caricature of the novel's bulky Ma Baxter...
...swap of 148 U.S. and British schoolteachers (TIME, Dec. 23) was not all a warm handshake across the sea. Pueblo, Colo, sent a teacher to London, got in exchange a pert, plain-spoken London schoolmarm named Miss Alice Elliott. When the Pueblo Lions Club asked for her honest impressions of U.S. schooling, Teacher Elliott startled the local Lions with a little roaring of her own. Excerpts...