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Axel Anderson, fireman, had almost won the hand of Rita Coates, teacher, when the Lynn. Mass, school committee intervened last month to say that Miss Coates could not have both her job and Axel. "This condemns me to the life of a spinster," mourned Rita Coates. "I have no choice unless I wish to desert my father and mother who are absolutely dependent...
...demonstrations. Galleries who watch a player unique for the uncanny accuracy of her iron shots, which are the weak point in almost every other woman's game, are usually surprised, no matter how low Joyce Wethered's score is, because they expect it to be lower. Soberly Spinster Wethered, who holds the world's record for women (68, made last summer at Woodbridge, England), tried to explain what, for her, were mediocre scores last week: "The change from amateur to professional has affected my game in a way I really cannot describe. Perhaps it is a feeling...
Because the biennial festival is Cincinnati's big social turnout, no one was busier last week than Marion Devereux, the chirping, bright-eyed little spinster who writes the society reams for the Cincinnati Enquirer (TIME, May 8, 1933). Marion Devereux is a dictator in her own small sphere. She tells Cincinnati matrons when to give their parties. As a reporter, she is rarely seen taking notes but no detail escapes her. The Enquirer ran 29½ columns of society news on the festival last week. Mr. Benjamin W. Lamson "deserted his own box party to enjoy Miss Ferguson...
KEEP AWAY FROM WATER! - Alice Campbell-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). A rich spinster seeks unsuccessfully to escape threatened murder. Serialized in the New York Daily News...
...nourishing diet, made him take unaccustomed exercise. Stephen had a horror feminae ever since an impassioned girl had bitten his ear in broad daylight in a Florentine cafe, but he nearly fell an unwilling prey to a legacy-stalking female. Hilary was too settled a spinster to change her ways...