Word: martha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When slim, brown-haired Martha Lucas took over the presidency of Virginia's Sweet Briar College for women in 1946, she announced that she would "promote world awareness in every possible way." She planned new instruction "on the Orient, Russia, South America," a broad curriculum which would include "the intellectual experience of the whole of mankind." Sweet Briar soon learned that President Lucas was a woman deeply concerned about the world...
Last month, when Harry Truman appointed Martha Lucas as a U.S. delegate to the Paris UNESCO conference, Sweet Briar suspected she might not stay much longer at the college she had helped to make one of the best in the U.S. Sure enough, last week, President Lucas sent word from Paris that she would resign next June. Chatting with newsmen before taking the boat train enroute to the U.S., she said she next wanted to write a book on the philosophy of religion which might help to "bridge the gaps of understanding that separate the peoples of the world today...
...candidate, all-freshman cast for the "Princess" will include Isabel Fulton as the princess; Betsy Brown, the Bareness von Brock; Martha Fontek, Lady von Haeldorf; Nene Collins, Milly; Carrio Sue Wright, Mrs. Lindeman; Florence Potter, Rosa; and Elizabeth Richards in the one male role as the student...
...eighth president of Wellesley, she is a member of a rare species. In the whole of the U.S., there are only five other women who head major colleges: stylish Sarah Blanding of Vassar, Sweet Briar's pert Martha Lucas, Barnard's Millicent Mclntosh, petite Rosemary Park of Connecticut, and Bryn Mawr's stately Katharine McBride. "I do hope," said Dean Mclntosh, "that Miss Clapp knows what...
They Were Sure. Events moved swiftly. There began a painstaking matching of the scientific evidence with intelligence reports. AEChairman David Lilienthal was summoned from Martha's Vineyard, where he was vacationing, for hurried briefing. Secretary of State Dean Acheson was called in. Some time last week the scientists reported to the President: they were sure that Russia had brought off an atomic explosion...