Word: wellesley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World's record nonstop flight was made in 1938 by two British Royal Air Force Vickers-Wellesley planes between Ismailia, Egypt and Darwin, Australia...
Married. Captain Mildred Helen McAfee, 45, director of the WAVES, pres- ident of Wellesley College; and Congregationalist Rev. Dr. Douglas Horton, 54; she for the first time, he for the second; in Jaffrey, N.H. The bridal gown had a hint of Navy rank: tailored white crepe with gold buttons and gold belt...
...shrubbery-screened garden. With her are her nephew and niece, L. K. Kung and Mrs. Rosamond Chen, children of Dr. H. H. Kung, China's onetime Minister of Finance. She has four servants. Sometimes there are visitors-old American and Chinese friends, classmates from her days at Wellesley College...
Engaged. Captain Mildred Helen Mc Afee, 45, keen-witted director of the WAVES, president of Wellesley College (where she spends about ten days a month); and the Rev. Dr. Douglas Horton, 54, internationally known Congregationalist. Wellesley promptly advised that the Captain's marriage would not "affect the situation"; so did the Navy...
Harvard will be almost exclusively for Freshmen this summer, and that's what makes the abbreviated nine-week term most strikingly abnormal. Except for the SERVICE NEWS and the Summer Chorus, all undergraduate organizations will be dormant, according to present indications. What's more, Radcliffe, Wellesley, and most other institutionalized sources of feminine companionship are out of session; and good little boys keeps away from the banks of the River Charles after curfew...