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Mount Holyoke, which made testy gentlemen snort "rib factory" and "Protestant nunnery" when famed Mary Lyon founded it in 1837, is the eldest and most retiring of the five sisters. Always studious, always hard up, its students have been little changed by Depression. They dress drably and, under the large, stern shadow of Mary Emma Woolley, lead rather drab lives. There is no cinema house in South Hadley; the pictures President Woolley brings to the college are usually old, often dull. This year girls may smoke at specified times and places, a major concession on the part of Miss Woolley...
...summer of 1933 rich, studious Thomas Sovereign Gates, who gave up a Morgan partnership to become president of the University of Pennsylvania, sent his husky post-débutante daughter to a dude ranch in Wyoming. The rancher said he had orders to see that she got everything she wanted except money. After one year on the ranch,. Virginia Ewing Gates left a cowhand holding her horse, hiked off. Announced her father, positively: "She is motoring home." Last week, clad in white slacks and a man's shirt, Daughter Virginia hitchhiked into Boise, Idaho, with one Dan McCafferty, onetime...
When he died in 1911, Joseph Pulitzer made a curious mistake. He left eight-tenths of the stock in his two publishing companies to his sons, Ralph and Herbert. To his son Joseph Jr., whom he apparently considered less able than the others, he left one-tenth. Under studious Ralph and socialite Herbert the World slowly lost most of its prestige and all its profits. Under able young Joseph the Post-Dispatch continued affluent and influential. When the wrecked World was sold in 1931, the Post-Dispatch remained the last monument to the liberal, crusading principles of Pulitzer journalism...
...next ten years the bylines of the Herricks were familiar to the Tribune's 770,000 readers. John, quiet, studious-looking, became a crack member of the paper's Washington bureau, lately covering the Senate. Genevieve ("Geno") developed into one of the ablest women reporters at the Capital. When Mrs. Roosevelt moved into the White House and began holding weekly press conferences, "Geno's" job became that much more important...
...Manchukuo felt big. Next day he felt small. Newswoman Jane Grant made the Puppet Emperor feel big by interviewing him, with utmost reverence, for the New York Times. She backed out of His Majesty's presence and rushed off to cable: "The Emperor's face is studious and interesting and very expressive. At mention of any subject outside routine, his face lighted, his features were suddenly alive and his eyes were seen to be glowing with interest even behind his darkened glasses." Next evening the hollow-eyed Manchu puppet who lives with a small Manchu Court at Hsinking...