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Bespectacled Spinster Margaret Wilson, talented daughter of the late President Woodrow Wilson, donned the voluminous white robes of a disciple of Sri Aurobindo, sought refuge from the world in the Brahmin retreat at Pondichery, India...
Albert Hines, a young columnist from Bucksnort who likes to write about the joys of bachelorhood, was seated at dinner next to Spinster Edith Berryman (pen name: Mary Ann Jones), with whom for two years he has carried on a feud about a tax on bachelors, suggested by Spinster Berryman. A bridal bouquet was awarded to Miss Berryman (laughter and applause), a sewing basket to Bachelor Hines...
...past ten years that they have come to be known as "soap operas." Leading soap-opera impresario is Procter & Gamble, whose 15 serials keep millions of women bathed in Ivory and suspense. Responsible for four of P. & G.'s sudsy dramas is Irna Phillips, a pigeon-plump spinster of 37, formerly a teacher, who has turned out a staggering total of 6,000 scripts in the course of her writing career. Now earning about $4,000 a week, Irna is the highest-paid aerial litterateuse in the country, by long odds the most prolific. Last week she celebrated...
Census takers in Pittsburgh revealed that they had not completely succeeded in cataloguing Helen Clay Frick, 49, spinster daughter of the late Steel and Coke Tycoon Henry Clay Frick. Said she: "I am a Republican and a good American citizen. I don't object to the census. I answered every question except those which were not proper. They asked the value of my Pittsburgh home. That is a personal question. . . . They asked my education. That is a personal matter, it is none of their business...
...father's provision of a suitable marriage portion practically guaranteed to attract an acceptable fiance. Or if there is no money for a dot then she rationally faces the alternatives of spinsterhood in its more or less appetizing forms. These in France can be either. The French spinster escapes certain laws which her smugly married sisters take as a matter of course, laws which definitely make the French husband master in his home. For example, a wife cannot go on the stage, open a bank account or obtain a French passport without her husband's explicit consent...