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...Sanger's father, Michael Hennessy Higgins, was an easygoing, loquacious, free-thinking carver of tombstone saints at Corning, N. Y. He died at 80. Her mother was a tight, aggressive little body who bore eleven children and died at 48. Margaret Higgins, sixth child, was born in 1883, developed tuberculosis from which she recovered only after bearing three children to William Sanger, an architect whom she married in 1900 and divorced in 1921. Now he practices architecture in Albany, N. Y. Of the children, Peggy, the youngest, died when 4 years old. Stuart, 30, Yale '28, once...
...singers no longer singing there remains mountainous Luisa Tetrazzini who in Italy squabbles publicly over money with her 34-year-old husband. In France there is old Emma Calvé, proud with the assurance that her Carmen has never been surpassed. In a walk-up studio in Bronxville (N. Y.), great Olive Fremstad lives grimly surrounded by her operatic trophies. The still lovely Emma Eames divides her time between Paris and Manhattan, occasionally revisits her old home in Bath, Me. Alma Gluck stopped opera-singing in 1912. Concerts and phonograph record royalties made her rich. And she is content...
...good standing with an evangelical church may become an active member by paying one dollar annually in advance." So decided the good Manhattan ladies who in 1858 founded the Ladies' Christian Association, forerunner of the Young Women's Christian Association. Last week the World Council of the Y. W. C. A. elected as its general secretary an able woman who, whatever her standing in church, is far from evangelical. Interviewed after learning of her election, General Secretary Ruth F. Woodsmall spoke proudly of the Mohammedans and Buddhists who are now Y. W. C. A. executives, summed...
...Y. W. C. A. operates in 50 nations, has 1,000,000 voting members, believes it comes in contact with five times as many young women. For Miss Woodsmall the extensive journeying which will be her lot as general secretary will be no great novelty. She taught school in Nevada and Colorado, became a Wartime hostess behind the French lines and in Coblenz. Doing Y. W. C. A. work for eight years in the Near East, Miss Woodsmall became an expert on the status of Oriental women. She will attend a women's suffrage meeting in Istanbul next April...
Because she was six years old, Jeanne Vizetelly Cochrane had a birthday party at her home in The Bronx, N. Y. Because she is the granddaughter and favorite prodigy of famed old Lexicographer Frank Horace Vizetelly, editor of the Standard Dictionary, all her friends and relatives gathered for news of her linguistic prowess. At the age of 18 months Jeanne had mastered 300 words. When she was 4. her grandfather placed her vocabulary at 5,800, listed the words to prove it. Proudly, last week, Grandfather Vizetelly reported: "Jeanne has learned 2,000 words this year. She will continue...