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Moreover, Frankfurter used the Harvard Law Review to lend credibility to New Deal legislation instigated by his mentor. During the '30s, Brandeis met regularly with Thomas G. Corcoran and Benjamin V. Cohen, F.D.R.'s legislative drafting team. According to Murphy, Together, Corcoran and Cohen drafted Brandeis' proposals into viable legislative acts, while simultaneously acting as Frankfurter's eyes and ears in the capital...
DIED. Virginia Bruce, 71, willowy, ash-blond actress of the '30s and '40s who played opposite such leading men as Robert Taylor, Fredric March and Melvyn Douglas; of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Often cast as a glamorous schemer, Bruce scored an early triumph in 1932 as an adulterous maid who shared her favors with villainous Chauffeur John Gilbert in Downstairs (she married him the same year). A veteran of 55 films, Bruce is best remembered for her portrayal of a chorus girl in The Great Ziegfeld...
There aren't many people there at 7:30, but by 8:00 they are coming in; women with children; women carrying babies; women in their 40s, 30s, 20s, teens; women with husbands, mothers, sisters, daughters, friends, alone; woman crying; woman smoking; woman staring. The receptionist takes your name and your money and tells you to sit down somewhere and wait, wait for her to call...
...aggressive athleticism. Long hours at the office is only one way to be belligerently preggers. Even new fashions help the mother-to-be (see box). Women run, scuba dive and fence, sometimes against the advice of their doctors, while carrying a child. One New York periodontist in her late 30s refused to stop riding with her local hunt club when she became pregnant. She merely traded in her form-fitting "hunting pink" jacket for a man's jacket to cover her swelling stomach, and continued to follow the hounds and, no doubt, perplex...
...doctor, a woman pregnant for the first time after 35 is an "elderly primigravida." If that sounds unappealing, it may reflect the medical establishment's longtime disapproval of delayed motherhood. The traditional view was that pregnant women in their 30s were risky patients, complications could be expected, and a caesarean, many doctors thought, was pro forma...