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...Fighting Quaker. Where did this terror of the tycoons, this gorgon of gossip, spring from? Like most great legends, Hedda's girlhood, as she recalls it, is swirled in mist, lit by occasional flashes of fire. She was born Elda Furry, in Hollidaysburg, Pa. (near Altoona), in 1890. Her father, a meat dealer descended from a long line of Quaker ministers, begot a long line of children (nine), of whom Elda...
...into Altoona to see Ethel Barrymore in Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines, Elda (then 17) fought her way out of the family, once & for all, and headed for Manhattan and the stage. She brought with her from Hollidaysburg two permanent assets: her talons, and an inviolable core of Quaker staidness. "Hedda," says a friend, "is a Quaker from the mouth down...
Gulielma Alsop* can remember when a nickel was a respectable weekly allowance for a little girl. When she went walking with her father, a Quaker who became an Episcopal minister, they were quite apt, as she now recalls it, to discuss such recondite matters as literary style and changing concepts of right & wrong. There were no Sunday papers "in that happy time which has since been called the Gay Nineties," but in the Alsop house in Brooklyn Heights there was a set period of meditation and contemplation called Searching Out the Heart. There was also a great deal...
About the morning's 3 to 2 loss to Penn, Dolph said, "They definitely gave us more than we gave them. "Quaker pitcher Bill McCunney allowed only five hits but gave up eight bases on balls, to Jack Wallace's eight hits--two of the scratchy variety--and one walk...
...brick building of the Young Friends in Philadelphia, 14 Quakers gathered for a meeting. The "sense" of that meeting-held on April 30, 1917-grew into the American Friends Service Committee, which for millions of the world's sufferers has made the word "Quaker" synonymous with "help...