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...Moreton, 42, earns $80 a week editing the house organ of a big company, reads good books, listens to good music on the radio, and has lately begun to think aloud. His wife Peggy, 41, is a trim little Irish woman whose scruples about birth control have lately begun to complicate their marriage. His children, a daughter 18 and a son 16, are a smart, self-possessed pair of youngsters who answer respectfully when he speaks to them, make moderated replies to his bitter wisecracks, and seem to him to have recently become large, mature and strange...
...night in 1914, fire broke out in College Hall. By morning, the hall ("a palace!" a visiting male had observed) was a ruin. In its place rose modern Wellesley. Stately President Ellen Fitz Pendleton and her electric brougham were succeeded by trim Mildred McAfee Horton and her Pontiac. When President Horton, wartime head of the Navy's WAVES, resigned last year to help her husband, the Rev. Douglas Horton, with his work for the Congregational Christian Churches, Wellesley went looking for a Margaret Clapp...
...Task. Michigan's ailing Arthur Vandenberg and New York's John Foster Dulles, who had forced the Administration to trim its demand into acceptable form, met his measured argument with measured reply. "If it is properly handled, it can be the greatest economy measure which this country has ever adopted," said Dulles. "Let us not lose our perspective," Vandenberg urged. "The objective is . . . defense for the common cause, this common cause, among other things, being the defense of the United States." Old Tom Connally, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, explained: "The North Atlantic Treaty and the military...
Miss Arizona, trim (5 ft. 4 in., 106 lbs.), brunette Jacque Mercer, a rancher's daughter from Litchfield, was crowned Miss America of 1949. She won over a field of 52, after preliminary victories in the bathing-suit division and talent class (she wowed them with a dramatic reading of the death scene from Romeo and Juliet). Her prizes: a $5,000 scholarship (which she hopes to take at Stanford), a $3,000 Nash sedan. Her plans: "Marriage first, a career second...
...ranch at Indio, Calif., spends long hours in his swimming pool to ease the pain of rheumatoid arthritis. A long telephone extension permits him to conduct business right from the pool. From there, Odium this year has been reshuffling Atlas' holdings to tighten up control and to trim expenses. Last week, as Atlas announced plans to combine two of its biggest properties, Barnsdall Oil and Ogden Corp., into the Barnsdall Oil Co., Odium reported that the asset value of Atlas shares was again on the increase. During the first half of this year, asset value dropped from...