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...Mac Tse-tung. 4. H. H. Kung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President and Politics | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...into top shape. The familiar names of Chuck Hoelzer, Tommy Woods, Larry Ward, and Joe Fox highlight the possible lineup for the 300-yd. medley relay. But there is more depth in the relays this season than could be mustered last year, and Norm Watkins, Paul Killoran, and Jim Mac-Vicar are also possibilities in the freestyle division of the relays...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Varsity Swimmers, Stronger than Ever, Striving for Perfect Season | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

Wellesley girls at morning chapel last week sat in unhappy silence when the chairman of the trustees announced Miss Mac's decision to resign-effective whenever a suitable replacement could be lined up for the job. Said Miss Mac in her letter of resignation: "I recommend [the presidency] with unrestrained enthusiasm . . . as stimulating and important as any position I know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Miss Mac Steps Down | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...years since her graduation from Vassar, Miss Mac has known quite a few jobs, ranging from a teacher in grade school to wartime director of the WAVES (TIME, March 12, 1945). At 36, she was Wellesley's second youngest president. University presidents, resigned to each other's ponderous speeches, always perk up when trigger-quick Mildred McAfee Horton gets up to speak. Her best-known dictum justifying girls' schools against the advocates of coeducation: "It is easier to be scholarly when the boy friend is an event rather than a habit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Miss Mac Steps Down | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

Cruel & Unusual. In Omaha, Grocer Amil Martin explained how he had dealt with an armed hold-up man: "I began sacking groceries and just ignored him." The thug finally gave up, said "Okay, Mac, you win," went away emptyhanded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

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