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Early one frosty, sunny morning at Lewisburg, Pa. last week, a mother led her 13-year-old son into the Federal Penitentiary's Administration Building. She went up to a handsome, so-year-old man who kissed her and said: "Priscilla." Wrapping his arms around the boy, the man greeted him with a "Hiya, Tony." Then Priscilla, Anthony and Alger Hiss walked out the door into the sunlight...
...Martha M. Eliot '13, Director of the United States Children's Bureau, and ex-Director of the United Nations' World Health Organization; Miss Mabel W. Daniels '00, well-known composer; Mrs. Serge Gaposchkin '35, noted astronomer; Dr. Priscilla White '21, diabetes specialist and author of "Diabetes in Childhood and Adolescence"; Mrs. Henry G. Doyle '40, who has been active in combatting juvenile delinquency in Washington...
They were solid citizens. Many were farmers; they lived and died in the big house for 100 years. Then about 1800 Priscilla Shallcross married Samuel Roberts at Abington Meeting House, and the house and its surrounding acres were passed on to their descendants. The Roberts tribe enlarged the place until it boasted 19 rooms and a 110-ft. porch, and they, in turn, tilled the farm for 120 years...
While Massachusetts Hall throbbed with activity--like "Berhhardt's heart beating in Priscilla's body" as John Mason Brown described it--people on the outside began to take notice of the productions. Even before the Workshop began Edward Sheldon's play, Salvation Neil, written while Sheldon was still an undergraduate in Baker's course, was discovered by the great American actress Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske and with her interpretation enjoyed a considerable run on Broadway. Soon after, with the founding of the HDC and its presentation of several plays written for Baker's courses, a number of Boston producers became...
...Student of the Week: Priscilla Holmes, 29, who last week became the first woman ever elected to the Harvard Law Review. A graduate of Swarthmore, Priscilla is one of 40 women taken into the law school since 1950, in her first year pulled down an A average. Her rank in the class of '55: 20th out of 501 students...