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...name of Frances Elizabeth Willard, longtime (1879-98) president of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, is held dear by all teetotalers. She dried up Evanston, Ill. so thoroughly that to this day you have to drive several miles west of town to a row of beer-saloons or push south into adjacent Chicago to get a drink. From 1859 to 1874 Miss Willard spent most of her time in Evanston, first as a student at Northwestern Female College (now part of Northwestern University), later on the faculty of Evanston College for Ladies (then as now also part...
...According to the files, a preceptress came into Miss Willard's room and saw smoke curling up from a bureau drawer. Pulling open the drawer, she was horrified to find a half-burned cigaret. Miss Willard was apparently just like any other girl...
...regarded as a nuisance and scornfully called kibitzers (Yiddish colloquial term). Not so were spectators at a game of contract bridge played last week in the ballroom of Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt by four experts, under the auspices of the recently organized Bridge Headquarters, Inc. The experts-Willard Karn & fat Philip Hal Sims v. David Burnstine & Oswald Jacoby -played six prearranged hands and a five-game rubber. The 450 spectators, who had paid $1 each to be admitted, sat in comfortable chairs, watched the play on a Scoreboard erected near the bridge table...
...Although it is no cheaper to subscribe than to buy each issue, and early announcements definitely urged readers not to subscribe, some 4,000 subscriptions were received. Among the subscribers: Julius Rosenwald, Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Truman Handy Newberry. Dr. Julius Klein, Norman Bel Geddes, Admiral Arthur Lee Willard...
...Reverend Willard Learoyd Sperry, Dean of the Theological School, will preach at a special service for new students at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning in Sanders Theatre...