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...Hull House. The press found her positively closemouthed about her private life. "We New Englanders like to keep ourselves to ourselves," she said. She was brisk with reporters. "When I was a child," she said, "my father used to rap on the table and say, 'Don't waste people's time with vaporings. If you have anything to say, say it definitely and stop...
...from her birth, in 1882, was schooled in the genteel manner of the New England Brahmin, graduating from Mount Holyoke College in 1902. She then served as a social worker for the Episcopal Church, as a high school teacher and finally as a colleague of Jane Addams at Hull House in the slums of Chicago. In 1910, she became executive secretary of the Consumers League of New York, concentrating on the improvement of working conditions for women and children...
...search for social justice infused all of Frances Perkins's eighty-three years. In her youth she rebelled against the grim orthodoxy of social Darwinism, becoming first a social worker at Jane Addams's Hull House and later one of New York's leading advocates of social and labor legislation. The infamous Triangle Fire on March 25, 1911 shocked the state's conscience and awakened its people to the justice of her cause...
...time the leaders reached Cat Cay, just 44½ miles from Miami, it was a two-boat race. Don Aronow, whose boatyard had already turned out the successful Formula racers, had come up with a new boat: Donzi 007, a fiberglass 28-footer, with a deep-V hull like the Bertram and powered by two 450-h.p. Ford engines. His competition was Merrick Lewis, whose Holocaust (730 horses packed into a 23-ft. frame) was -that's right-an Aronow-designed Formula. With 007 throttled up to 5,800 r.p.m., Aronow was hitting a fantastic 66 knots...
...only major straight-drama series on TV. The 13 rep groups, winnowed from 22 auditioned by Producer David Susskind, stretch from Washington, D.C., to the state of Washington, and their repertory has a still wider reach-from Euripides to Beckett. Last week the guest company was Chicago's Hull House Theater, their offering was Harold Pinter's demanding The Dumb Waiter. And their rendition? So stunningly effective as to be worth the series' syndication price alone...