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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their book, For Men Lonely, by Wil liam Jones, Donald Mose and Richard O'Riley (Ripley Publishing Co., Hanover, N.H.; $1), came out last week. It covered twelve eastern women's colleges,† included maps of each campus and hints on how to act there: "The Vassar campus boasts everything from a nine-story Tudor dormitory to the unhappy Victorian 'Main' Building-a tender spot to loyal Vassarians, so try and keep a straight face when you see it." Other tips: ¶ Wellesley : "The major pastime is long walks . . . with a little ingenuity you can stay...
...smart young mother in her mid-twenties, Storyteller Lydia Perera (in private life Mrs. Wil Marcus of Boston, Mass.) is a rarity among children's entertainers-she has a sense of humor and a sense of children's dignity that keep her from acting either cute or brimful of fake wonder. For her novel program, listeners send in lists of "any three things in the world," and around the three things Lydia writes her Story to Order. Sometimes they come out fantasies, sometimes realistic dramas, sometimes burlesques. Most of them are pretty good...
Divorced. By Susanna Wilson Hare, 28, chic daughter of Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (Mrs. Paul Caldwell Wil son), David Meredith Hare, 28, color photographer and surrealist sculptor; after seven years of childless marriage ; in Reno...
...fleet ever assembled in the South west Pacific. Around him were hundreds of transports, shepherded by an Australian squadron and MacArthur's own Seventh Fleet, reinforced with jeep carriers from Admiral Chester Nimitz' vast armada of seagoing airdromes. On the horizon loomed the majestic battleships of Admiral Wil liam F. Halsey's Third Fleet - some of them ghosts from the graveyard of Pearl Harbor. Beyond the horizon steamed the greatest concentration of water-borne air power in war's history-Vice Admiral Mitscher's fast carrier task groups...
...most noticeable contrast between the total number of courses offered and those that will begin in the spring term is in the Economics Department, where out of 30 courses listed, only six will begin in March. Additions to this group include Economics 41a, "Money, Banking, and Commercial Crises" (Professor Wil- liams), which is recommended to government concentrators, and Dr. Richard M. Goodwin's Economics 46, "Introduction to Mathematical Business Cycle Theory." Economics 4a, 81b, and 181b have been dropped from the spring term program...