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...JAMES R. SHIPLEY...
...girls in the graduating class of the Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pa., listened with solemn commencement faces as Dwight Eisenhower, 76, spoke to them of the glories of education and the unwisdom of picking a political leader "by his beauty or by his shock of hair." All of a sudden the girls began giggling and looking nervously at their knee-length skirts. The former President, basing his remarks on the fact that "I have been looking at good-looking girls since I was six," sounded off with some unexpected and decidedly unpolitical opinions about ladies' fashions. "Ankles...
Died. Ruth Shipley, 81, longtime (1928-55) head of the State Department's Passport Division, known as "the Czarina of the Potomac" by liberals who objected to her zealous enforcement of regulations restricting the travel of Communists and their friends; of a heart attack; in Kensington, Md. F.D.R. had his own phrase for her-"a delightful ogre"-possibly because he once intervened on behalf of a friend denied a passport, had to report back: "Mrs. Shipley says no and that...
...parliamentary device (it has not worked in the House since 1960), by which the signatures of a majority of House members automatically remove a bill from committee jurisdiction and put it before the whole House. Last week home-rule advocates got the necessary 218th signature from Illinois Democrat George Shipley, who came back to Washington just to sign the petition. No action on the bill can take place until Sept. 27. Meanwhile, opponents of the measure threaten some artful dodges of their own. But the District of Columbia is closer to running its own affairs than at any time since...
...Wind in a Dry-Land. Although she does not live up to her publishers' extravagant billing, she demonstrates in The Stone Angel that she has a true novelist's gift for catching a character in mid-passion and life at full flood. The character is Hagar Shipley, who mixes past and present indiscriminately, telling now of her efforts to avoid the old ladies' home to which her son wishes to send her, now of the life she led as a girl and a young bride at a bleak crossroads town on the Canadian prairie...