Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Murphy watched vigilantly as Hiss's lawyers called an elderly colored woman to the witness stand. She was Mrs. Claudie ("Clytie") Catlett, onetime Hiss housemaid. The Hisses, she testified casually, had once given her children "an old typewriter...
...Gallup, Doris B. Bennett, Martha K. Caires, Edith L. Stone, and eight other classmates last week received the first M.D. degrees ever awarded to women by Harvard Medical School. At graduation, they were the symbolical victors of a century-long battle. It was in 1847 that the first woman began trying to get into the medical school; but Harvard would have none of her, nor of any women thereafter (one reason: too many medical women graduates never bothered to practice). Finally, in 1945, when the wartime shortage of doctors had become acute, Harvard relented and admitted twelve...
...brisk, tireless little woman, with a kind of Helen Hokinson figure, Minnie Guggenheimer, with a lot of help from her wealthy lawyer-husband, also finds time to keep up three or four charities, a ten-room Park Avenue apartment and a New Jersey summer estate...
...Capri audience was thrilled. Lara was still playing to a woman synthesized...
...friendly little woman, brimming with vitality. She had to give up tennis while she was reducing. But when she is not on tour, she still roller-skates daily in Manhattan's Central Park. Even while she is busy preparing her part of the program for the Goethe Bicentennial celebration at Aspen, Colo, next month, she "keeps three kitchens going"-one at her sunlit 16th floor studio in the "heaven of Carnegie Hall," one in the nine-room house she runs as the wife of Dr. Shelby Rooks, Presbyterian minister, and one on their York River, Virginia farm, which...