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lation of the New York Times by her comic strip “'I'he Doings of Dodo,” wkile the
latter is a photographer for the same paper and recently snapped a picture of the crater o f \ ’ e s m* i u s i n e r u p t i o n w h i c h h a s c a u s e d
quite a sensation. We understand that she was aided in this daring accomplishment by her former practice in photography while she was attending school and by the rash bravery of Hess Houghton, who piloted Mavin over the mountain in her plane, “The
Spirit of Hartridge.”
Different branches of writing have claimed several of our old friends, for Shirley Clark is now Advertising Manager of the Saturday Evening Post and Virginia Howell is writing for no other publication than The Nezi'
Y orker.
I'wo of our fellow students have entered politics—Jane Alston, who is New York’s first woman governor, and Anne Moment,-the American Ambassador to Siam. \Ve heard Anne speak the other afternoon over the radio, and we were greatly surprised to hear the announcer sign off with, “Y'his is station d' H S, Cornelia A. Robison speaking. Good af­
ternoon. 1^
We hardlv needed to tell the girls at
school about Constance Van Duyn’s lat­
est Broadway success in the role of Lady Macbeth, or of Janet Dunning, who
is the founder of that new sect based on the belief that Knowledge is the one great power. Probably they would not be surprised to learn that Virginia Sykes has followed her natural instincts
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