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Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology and member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Public Administration, is in charge of applications from the University. Mrs. Wilma A. Kerby Miller, Dean of Instruction at Radcliffe, is supervising 'Cliffe applications. Prospective candidates must file applications by Feb. 10. These interested may obtain forms and additional information either at 9 Bow St. or at Fay House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ford Foundation Gives Subsidy to Behavioral Study | 1/12/1954 | See Source »

...well content to be, so long as nobody tried to reform them. Hector ran the "Sword of Fortune," a pub near Sydney's waterfront, where blood flowed almost as freely as beer. Grandma lived near by, pretending to be deaf yet privy to every racket within miles. Wilma had eight children, none legitimate. Fred, during a turn at the reform school, ate a tin of nails to spite the superintendent. Clarrie was a con man and the family intellectual: "It's a sort of poetry," he said, "to read over the names of race horses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Contented Riffraff | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

...exact duties to be covered by Mrs. Elliott's new post have not yet been announced, but she probably will act partly as assistant to Mrs. Wilma A. Kerby-Miller, Dean of Instruction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mrs. Elliott Gets New Annex Post; Successor Chosen | 4/23/1953 | See Source »

Limited Objective. In Chicago, a teenage thief snatched Mrs. Wilma Gardner's purse containing her $10,000 life savings, a week later mailed $9,780 back to her with an awed note: "I never expected to find that much money. If I had, I never would have taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 15, 1952 | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

Like many of her fellow U.S. citizens fan estimated 1,000,000), Mrs. Wilma Russ of Mariana, Fla. had written a lot of fiction in her early years without ever getting any of it published. Since she had reached middle age, it seemed less & less likely that any of it ever would be. So when the Boy Scouts came around collecting wastepaper, Mrs. Russ philosophically donated a boxful of her manuscripts. Obeying some obscure impulse, she held back one unfinished novel. When her duties as a small-hotel owner permitted, she finished it and called it Quivering Earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Swamp Idyll | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

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