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...When Dean Helen Taft Manning of Bryn Mawr College-isolationist sister of Presidentially ambitious Senator Robert A. Taft who last week accused Franklin D. Roosevelt of "ballyhooing" war in order to play politics (see p. 21)-urged the same committee to stiffen the present neutrality law and make it more instead of less inflexible, arch-isolationist Senator Borah demanded: "Haven't the people [of the U. S.] already made up their minds who is right and who is wrong? The world is already at war. Already things have taken place which make other nations look...
...Possible explanation: city folks hear more about the world's troubles-a reason given by many a police for reg turning to the church. According to the poll, 31% of the people listen to church services on the radio. >In the Survey Graphic, James Henry Leuba, retired Bryn Mawr psychologist, published results of a religious sampling of names in Who's Who in America, grouped as: 1) bankers, 2) other businessmen, 3) lawyers, 4) writers. Psychologist Leuba's conclusions from replies to his statements of belief...
Saved from "The Lake" by a "Holiday" in "Bringing Up Baby," Katharine Hepburn has again sallied forth in a stage venture, this time a contemporary satire by Philip Barry. And from the wholehearted response to "The Philadelphia Story" last night it is apparent that the star of the Bryn Mawr graduate has risen anew in the popular firmament. Miss Hepburn has chosen this time a fast, clever vehicle, enabling her to display the richness of her virtuosity as a comedienne...
Back to Manhattan from the Pan-American Conference at Lima (TIME, Nov. 21, et seq.), where she was a U. S. delegate, went plump, soft-voiced Florence Kathryn Lewis, 27, daughter of John L. Lewis. Asked why she had quit Bryn Mawr to work for her father, she replied: "It wasn't so much a question of wanting to work with father, but of getting into the movement. . . . I've been arguing with him ever since I was two years...
Insuranceman Stevenson will soon move to Bryn Mawr, has a son at Princeton. He amuses himself collecting first editions of Scott, Dickens, Twain, Poe and Whitman. His prize possession: the manuscript of Whitman's autobiography, which he picked up for a pittance from a busted bootlegger...