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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smith College is one of the top U.S. schools for women, but its presidency is traditionally a job for a man.* Its retiring head man, Jonathan Swift scholar Herbert John Davis, who will leave in June after nine years in the president's office, had been plucked from the Cornell faculty. This week, Smith announced it had found his successor at Harvard...
...Words. Runner-up Caroline Littlejohn, who hopes to use her scholarship at Barnard, had not been so confident. She is at the top of her class in Classen High in Oklahoma City, but she was worried about missing two weeks of school for the trip and not sure what the judges would think of her essay, "Beginning Researches in the Mathematical Theory of Relativity and Its Applications." When she heard her name called and stepped to the mike she found just two words for her fellow scientists: "Oh heavens...
Within a few days of the announcement the bistros and ateliers of Paris were seething with gossip. Hallmark's top prizes were such as only a Picasso or Matisse could expect for a canvas. Almost instantly, the French had a name for the whole thing: le plan Marshall de la peinture. That meant that Frenchmen would take sides on the Hallmark Plan just as on ECA. Screamed the Communists: "Nothing but an effort to destroy our national independence...
...Broadway hit often takes patience, pleading-or a hefty premium that is many times the price of admission. Tickets disappear first at the box office, then at the large, reputable ticket brokers (who, unlike many of their smaller, shadier colleagues, charge no more than the top legal fee of 75? a ticket). But for those who want seats badly enough, especially in the first ten rows, there is a booming black market...
...Gazette pays its easygoing, underpaid staff a top of only $50 a week. In the tiny newsroom, up a cobwebby staircase in the Gazette's old building, there are not enough typewriters to go around so the staff takes turns writing stories. It leans heavily on loyal volunteer correspondents for breaking news. Bragged one staffer: "There is not a police department or a fire department within a hundred miles that would not telephone us the news at any time of the day or night." But when the occasion demands, the sleepy Gazette wakes up with a bang...