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...cardinal (TIME. Dec. 28, 1931). Son of a French Canadian cobbler, he is only 49, a tall, spare ascetic whom Ottawa called its "Good Father" when he taught there in St. Joseph Scholasticate and the University. Last June Archbishop Villeneuve admonished women to bathe in suitable costume, "a skirt reaching nearly to the knees ... a species of coat or cape which shields the shape of the body." When he set sail from New York last month he said: "I do not feel at all worthy, but the sovereign pontiff calls...
...other. Neither knows Mrs. Benedict. Professor Morgan, 50, is a short, trim woman with slightly grey bobbed hair, blue eyes. Since 1906 she has taught zoology at Mount Holyoke (except for two years at Cornell), has headed her department since 1916. During school hours she habitually wears a tailored skirt, shirtwaist, tie, white "physician's" coat. She moves briskly about her laboratories, lectures her classes in clear, crisp tones. Her recent writings for learned publications have dealt with the winter habits and yearly food consumption of adult spotted newts. But her favorite preoccupation has been and, says she, will...
...Illustrated History of the Hasty Pudding Club Theatricals," now being exhibited in Cambridge, contains informal glimpses into the college careers of Harvard graduates who have long since become famous, Covering the shows since 1844, the book proves that many a student who wore a ballet skirt, or capered as the hind legs of a horse, may survive to become celebrated in the world of arts or affairs after graduating from Pudding theatricals...
...Verville* left from Selwood Bay in his 45-ft. motored schooner Dora. With him were Alex ("Sandy") Austin, 21, and some Husky dogs. To get to Melville Island the party had to skirt the westerly shore of Banks Island, the westernmost of the stupendous archipelago which clutters the Arctic north of Canada. Off Banks Island an ice floe struck the Dora, shoved her completely over an uncharted islet, cracked her beyond repair. The two men managed to reach big Banks Island with sledges & dogs, proceeded northward, sheltering themselves in snow-block houses, cooking only one meal a day, at other...
...Such clothes break definitely with the impractical skirt and with all bourgeois traditions of women's dress," proclaimed a placard. "The Soviet woman must move unhampered and with perfect freedom as she does her work...