Word: suits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yalemen, there seems some reason to believe that Mendenhall will modify his wardrobe before journeying to Smith next July, perhaps holding a ceremonial bonfire for the professorial rags on Berkeley lawn. At any rate, publicity pictures passed out by the women's college show him in a neat suit, with matching vest. It is even possible that Yale's pride may come to rival that tennis-playing smoothie among women's college presidents, Harold Taylor of Sarah Lawrence. Mendenhall's favorite sport is rowing-he rowed at Oxford, watches Yale crew practice in all weather...
Quite a different sort of academic executive was Ada Louise Comstock, first fulltime president of Radcliffe College, who ruled the school with firmness and vision from 1923-43. Last week, still tall, erect and stately at 81, Ada Comstock Notestein (she resisted the suit of Yale History Professor Wallace Notestein for her full 20 years at Radcliffe, married him only after she retired) journeyed to Radcliffe Yard, accepted congratulations as a dormitory was dedicated...
...rest of the board: School Superintendent Virgil T. Blossom. Before quitting, the board voted over Alford's objection to dismiss Blossom, pay him $19,741.41 for the remaining 19 months of his contract. But by week's end the segregationist machinery had produced a taxpayer's suit charging collusion, postponed payment...
...Curley sported full evening dress--cutaway and striped pants. Shabby though it may have been in a few places, his Harvard cutaway helped Curley make a name for himself. He wore it in campaigns for thirteen years until he was elected to Congress in 1911. Then Curley gave the suit away to a cousin who, in due time, he saw waked...
Married. Martha Raye, 42, singing comedienne; and Robert O'Shea, 31, Manhattan private eye, former Westport (Conn.) cop whose first wife filed an alienation-of-affections suit against Martha Raye; she for the sixth time, he for the second; by the mayor of Teaneck, N.J., in the mayor's living room...