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Last week, one of Lisa's typical days began at 7 a.m., when she arose at her converted gardener's cottage in Muttontown^ Long Island. She breakfasted in bed, listened to her eight-year-old daughter Mia read her lessons. She drove 35 miles to Manhattan in her red-upholstered Studebaker convertible. On the road, she was something of a hazard. An amateur plane pilot, she considers any speed under 70 m.p.h. dull. She fretted at whistling truck drivers and ogling motorists/'There will be an accident for sure," she said, "and those silly men will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Billion-Dollar Baby | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Tennis, "R's": Brooks Emmons '50, Mary Hazzard '50, Jean McCormick '48, and Elizabeth Saunders '50. Numerals: Mia Atherton '51, Mary Howes '48, Miss Hughes and Dorothea Penizek...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 25 Earn Athletic Association Awards for Softball, Tennis | 12/2/1948 | See Source »

Jane Rainie '50 and Alice Steer '50 will share the chairmanship of the new dormitory-commuter committee. Elizabeth Menzel '51 will wield the baton at the annual Annex song contest on the Quadrangle this term. Mia Atherton '51 was named to head the Alumnae fund committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex to Punish Students Who Cut Mass Assemblies | 10/6/1948 | See Source »

...Goodwins: the 2,327-ton freighter Silvia Onorato, carrying 2,933 tons of plumbago (graphite). When a lifeboat came through mountainous seas to take off the crew, bushy-browed Captain Francesco Ruocco cried: "Ship go, me go. . . . This ship she mean everything to me and to my bella mia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Low Island | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

Just why Brazilians had temporarily deserted their lively sambas for a sad-sweet tango about the pampas seemed explainable only by Brazilian saudades-a special Latin kind of homesickness for things and places they have never seen. When last heard from, Adiós, Pampa Mia was heading north. U.S. citizens could get set for a tango in the jukeboxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Heading North | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

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