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...revealed not in Leningrad but in Philadelphia, where a pleasant, grey-haired old lady named Nadejda Galli-Shohat had been living obscurely, after teaching physics at the University of Michigan, Bryn Mawr and Mount Holyoke. A U.S. resident since 1923, Nadejda Galli-Shohat, though she had never said much about it, is Shostakovich's aunt...
...Place Like Home. Briggsy was a horrifying bowser of a Bryn Mawr graduate-a Philadelphia Main Liner, piddler in photography, a breeder of Scottish terriers. Briggsy was abetted by her Ma and Pa, who lined Jimbo-Jumbo's "den" with photographs of clipper ships; by her bouncing redheaded sisters, Franzie, Pollsie and Nellsie...
Lest the college further strain its tradition, Haverford-with its Quaker neighbors, Swarthmore and Bryn Mawr-last week proposed another sort of contribution to the world outside. Before Director of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Herbert Lehman they placed a joint proposal chat they train a staff to help in the U.S. administration and relief of occupied countries...
...British Raj hasn't changed since Kipling left the Punjab. To the Raj, India is still the cornerstone of the Empire and must be held at all costs. The timeworn clichés with which excesses and failings have been shrouded Miss Mitchell attacks with a Bryn-Mawrian vigor implemented with the background of nine years on the secretariat of the Institute of Pacific Relations...
...Dante Prize of $40, for the best essay on a subject drawn from the life or works of Dante, was divided among Sarah C. Alexander, of Bryn Mawr, Pa., for her essay "Dante in Relation to Landscape Poetry"; Joanna H. Leowe, of Bryn Mawr, Pa., for her essay "Imagery in the First Two Cantiche of the Divine Comedy"; and Florence M. Newman, of Brya Mawr, Pa., for her essay "The Francesca da Rimini Episode in English Literature...