Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vassar College's C. (for Clara) Mildred Thompson, 66, starchy, pince-nezed dean (for 25 years), "map-minded" history professor, U.S. delegate to the conference that founded UNESCO, outspoken feminist, internationalist and F.D.R. Democrat. More respected than beloved, Atlanta-born Dean Thompson briskly shook hands on registration day with every new Vassar girl, thereafter kept a cold eye on grades and credits until commencement...
...American Airways wanted a travel ad on Ireland. The J. Walter Thompson agency, digging through travel folders, liked some lines attributed to George Bernard Shaw: "I was lost in dreams in Ireland; one cannot work in a place where there is such infinite peace...
...Professor Tinbergen-and upon you, too, TIME ! Do you not know that there are still extant a few of us anthropomorphic-minded souls who still clasp Uncle Remus and Ernest Thompson Seton to our bosoms? We prefer to believe, since birds do it and bees do it, that they (and the sticklebacks) feel romantic about what Professor Tinbergen insists is merely another dismal reflex...
...gallon hat and talked to Chief Sunset on the Mountain. In The Dalles, Dewey posed in a regulation feather headdress, last worn by Rumania's Queen Marie on a visit in the '20s. At the same town the next day, Stassen shook hands with Chief Tommy Thompson, but balked at donning his war bonnet...
Merritt made the announcement at the annual dinner of the Glee Club, held at the Harvard Club of Boston last night, at which Thompson was the principal speaker. Other events included speeches by G. Wallace Woodworth '24, conductor of the Club, and Mayo A. Shattuck '18, Graduate Advisor, and the election of officers for the coming year...