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...sexes was fought in gentle, rolling Thurber country. Now the din is in earnest, echoing from the streets where pickets gather, the bars where women once were barred, and even connubial beds, where ideology can intrude at the unconscious drop of a male chauvinist epithet. This week, marking the 50th anniversary of the proclamation of the 19th Amendment granting women the vote, the diffuse, divided, but grimly determined Women's Liberation movement plans a nationwide protest day against the second sex's once and present oppression...
Photographers swarmed around Mia Farrow as her glamorous André Previn conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Jack Benny played Mendelssohn over the phone. Still, Isaac Stern more than held his own at his 50th birthday celebration. His rendition of the Brahms violin concerto was the hit of a gala at the Hollywood Bowl. At supper afterward, his observations ranged from philosophy ("Music is more important than musicians. The music goes on and on. All we can do is serve it honestly") to a pun inspired by Ogden Nash ("I leave no tone unSterned...
Never before in memory had so many notables with White House connections assembled under the same roof. Among the guests at the Women's National Press Club's 50th anniversary dinner at Washington's Shoreham Hotel: Mamie Doud Eisenhower, 73; Mrs. Charles S. Robb, 26, elder daughter of Lyndon Johnson; Teddy and Joan Kennedy; Mrs. James A. Hoisted, 64, only daughter of Franklin D. Roosevelt; Mrs. Richard T. Brigham (Peggy-Ann Hoover), 44, Herbert's granddaughter. Also Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 86, Theodore's daughter-and Pat Nixon, who showed up with husband and family...
Dunster House filled up yesterday with 180 Harvard men, their wives, and 25 widows celebrating their 50th class reunion. Never before has the Class of '20 held a reunion on a grand scale. Although the 25th reunion is normally a gala event, the Class of '20 missed out. Paul McElroy '20, chairman of the reunion, explained, "We got screwed. Mr. Hitler...
...50th reunion of the Class of 1920 begins today. Reunion chairman Paul K. McElroy '20 said 350 people have registered for the reunion including around 180 classmates. Over 25 widows of classmates are expected to attend the reunion, as well as 33 classmates who are either widowers, bachelors, or without their wives...