Word: womens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fugitive from justice in the U.S., where he is accused of stock swindles amounting to at least $14 million, Lowell M. Birrell, 52, is still living it up in Rio. Last week he whiled away the balmy tropical evenings in the company of beautiful women at the Copacabana Palace, Le Bon Gourmet and other nightspots, spending upwards of $200 a night on food, drink and fun. One night he even dined at the home of Colonel Eugenic Castilho Freire, warden of Central Prison, where he had been an honored guest while the officials brought a predictably fruitless deportation case against...
...Women live longer than men, but what kind of women live longest? Nuns, according to the results of two studies published by Dr. Con J. Fecher, professor of economics at the Roman Catholic University of Dayton (Ohio). The control of tuberculosis and other communicable diseases, to which members of a close community were especially prone, has added 14 years to a 20-year-old nun's life expectancy since the turn of the century. After comparing 90,000 nuns in 90 sisterhoods with white females throughout the U.S., from 1900 to 1958, Dr. Fecher also estimated that...
...percent working wives of teaching fellows, the young mothers who, as Mrs. Bundy put it, "are engaged in maintenance," and those wives who do volunteer work or have careers of their own. Faculty wives have taught at Milton (Mrs. Yeager and Mrs. George Snyder), presided over the League of Women Voters (Mrs. Owen and Mrs. Feinsod), worked at the polls or for the C.C.A. (Mrs. Bundy), practiced Medicine and law, painted and sung. They have written novels and children's stories, been professional photographers and served as Radcliffe trustees. Some of them sew, Mrs. Friederich having distinguished herself among...
With such diversity the lives of Faculty women differ greatly. Mrs. Owen, as wife to the Master of Winthrop, has found that her life is to a large extent contained within Winthrop. A typical month's calendar, crowded with student teas each Tuesday afternoon, tutor's dinners, Winthrop House galas such as the Christmas party and the spring musical, visiting scholars, and House committee dinners, leaves her only a few days in the month to attend to her old interest, politics. "I find that I can never give to the League of Women Voters a substantial, consecutive amount of time...
...School and during the war she worked for the Boston Labor Board for the propaganda analysis subsection of the Justice Department. Previous to this, in the thirties "when jobs were hard to get," Mrs. Fainsod did volunteer work. She has also served as state president of the League of Women Voters for two years...