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Each year on "famous women night," women students of small, coeducational Geneva College (Beaver Falls, Pa.) select a celebrity to honor. The college, which is in the heart of Pennsylvania's steel and CIO area, has thus warmly welcomed such ladies as the late Amelia Earhart, Mrs. Martin Johnson. But it proved too hot last week for the famous woman whom students chose to honor this year-Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pearce and Perkins | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

Doggedly the reporter trailed his prey to the Littauer Center at Harvard in the evening. Awaiting the chairman of the Democratic Committee were a select group of Government professors and Public Administration students. "It is strictly off the record," someone explained as the reporter tried to follow Farley through the door...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FARLEY ATTENDS SEMINAR IN UNFINISHED LITTAUER CENTER | 1/17/1939 | See Source »

...gong for the next round, she was winded. In fact, she was punch-drunk. She couldn't seem to select the rest of the meal. Every moment that she hesitated the nephew knew that she was losing ground. But what to do about it? Finally the elder struck out in desperation: "I haven't had any corn on the cob for some time. How would what go with clams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Recently appointed by Dennett and Richard H. Sullivan '39, President of the Student Council, to a committee to select new books for the Stillman Infirmary library were Ellsworth Grant '39, chairman, Frederick E. Pamp '39, and Frank P. Davidson '39. The group will have a $100 appropriation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHLESINGER, LEIGHTON APPOINTED FOR P. B. H. | 1/10/1939 | See Source »

...Journal of the American Medical Association remarked that Lydia Pinkham had changed her dress again. In keeping with vitamin fads the preparation is now labeled "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound (With Vitamin B 1 )." Said the Journal: "It is indeed surprising that . . . these old-timers . . . did not select vitamin E [fertility vitamin] . . . since [it] . . . has been endowed with certain effects which were claimed for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It must be granted, however, that there is probably nothing harmful in the addition of vitamin B 1 [anti-beriberi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Lydia Pinkham's New Dress | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

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