Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fresh from her election as first woman president of the 47-nation Federation Aeronautique Internationale, Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran rested up on the 600-acre California ranch of Financier Husband Floyd Odium, whooped happily about the job: "Great guns! It never dawned on me a woman would be elected, considering the number of countries involved." Future assignments for Flyer Cochran: two trips to Paris for F.A.I. meetings, an astronautics convention at The Hague in August, the federation's general conference next May in Moscow...
...Dean John C. Bennett of Union Theological Seminary; Baptists Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick (retired) and Dr. Robert J. McCracken of Manhattan's interdenominational Riverside Church; Methodist Dr. Ralph W. Sockman of Manhattan's Christ Church; and Baptist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. of Montgomery, Ala. ¶The Woman's Division of Christian Service of the Methodist Board of Missions threw its 1,800,000 members behind an appeal to the U.S. Government "to abandon its inflexible position on disarmament and to explore the possibility of dealing separately with ways of ending nuclear-weapons tests...
...miles of track, once walked away from a wreck and waited until that evening to have a broken collarbone set with no other painkiller than a shot of whisky. There are only two things a man will turn his head for, said "Uncle Ernest" Norris, "One is a pretty woman, the other is a train...
Died. Helena Hill Weed, 83, Vassar '96, kinetic suffragette who crisscrossed the nation crusading for her right to vote (and was thrown into jail four times in Washington), member of the National Woman's Party and a founder of the Women's National Press Club; in San Jacinto, Calif...
...Harvard Dramatic Club last night selected Chekhov's The Three Sisters and Bertolt Brecht's The Good Woman of Setzuan as its first two productions for next year...