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...slalom, the U.S. team had an overwhelming favorite: bespectacled, oak-legged Marilyn Shaw, 17-year-old daughter of the owner of the general store at Stowe, Vt. At 15 she outran a crack field that included famed Betty Woolsey, once ranked among the world's first ten woman skiers. Last year Miss Shaw waltzed off with the ladies' U.S. slalom championship...
...threatened to strike last week over a story in Tatler, the campus funny magazine, about "Maids We Have Known And Loved"-including "one who was four feet wide ... a high-grade moron," another with "monstrous buck teeth." Smith's maids read, bridled, sent a committee to Warden Laura Woolsey Lord Scales demanding an immediate apology. The faculty suspended the Tatler and its editors wrote the maids a penitent letter. "We hope that [the maids] will accept our apologies and that they will be lenient with a sheer creation, unfortunate and ill-advised." Appeased, the maids resumed their mopping...
...does include, for example, the whole of James Thurber's "My Life and Hard Times" (which any Thurber-connoisseur will tell you is the master's chef-d'ocuvre), stories by Maugham, Beerbohm, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, excerpts from Eve Curie and Fowler's "Modern English Usage," and Judge Woolsey's decision lifting the ban on "Ulysses...
...Navy Charles Edison last week announced the names of 23 U. S. warboats new-built and building. Battleships: Iowa and New Jersey. Cruisers: Cleveland and Columbia. Seaplane tenders: Casco and Mackinac. Submarines: Marlin, Grayling, Grenadier, Gudgeon, Mackerel, Gar, Grampus, Grayback. Repair ship: Vulcan. Destroyers (for Navy heroes): Woolsey, Ludlow, Wilkes, Nicholson, Ericsson, Ingraham, Edison (for Thomas Alva, the Acting Secretary's father), Swanson (for his predecessor...
...Institute's department of education, got it up and it was good. In ten sections of ten questions each were such factual stumpers as "Who painted the girl serving chocolate on a well-known brand of cocoa?"; such models of test technique as "Pick your painter: a) Linsey-Woolsey, b) 'Lippo Lippi, c) Boro Budur, d) Sancho Panza, e) Michelozzo Michelozzi"; and queries Jike...