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Show " " Miss Winslow access to its priceless price-less collection of chantey words and airs, many of which she has arranged for modern use. Although Al-though the early chanteys were sung by men, Miss Winslow has composed others for women's and mixed voices. Lady Charles Vyner Brooke, wife of the Rajah of Sarawak, Borneo, the only white rajah in the world, likes her home in the East and says that the people of Borneo live a more normal life than many of the people in the United States. They marry early, have babies as often as possible, and are willing to be considered elderly at the age of thirty. The rajah's wife is the daughter daugh-ter of Viscount Esher of England Eng-land and she is known as the Ranee Ra-nee of Sarawak. She has lectured a great deal and has written a book about Borneo, whose people she says are very moral. Miss Louise Hacloneister handles han-dles the switchboard in the White House and her memorv for voices ImodernJ Miss Pauline Winslow of Brooklyn,, Brook-lyn,, New York, who dreads the sea, doesn't swim and dislikes boat rides, has written a dozen sea chanteys, which are tremendously tremendous-ly popular. Sea chanteys have been handed down from one generation of sailors to another, few of them ever having been written down. She came by her love for these songs from her father, who Jearn-ed Jearn-ed them from his father, a descendant des-cendant of one of the Mayflower voyagers. The Seamen's Institute gave is so keen that the President has called her the "telephone detective." detec-tive." She has handled the White House calls ever since the first New Deal inauguration. Before that she had charge of the 1932 Democratic National headquarters switchboard. Dr. Marjorie Hope Nicolson, Dean of Smith College, has been appointed professor of English at Columbia University, the first woman wo-man to be named to a full professorship profes-sorship in the graduate faculty of this university. She was the first woman to receive the John Addison Addi-son Porter Essay Prize of $500 at Yale. Mrs. Mary P. Converse, who is ; sixty-seven years old, is a grand- i mother and lives in Denver, Colo- i rado, announced recently that she had signed as fourth mate of the 1 freighter S. J. Luckenbach. She 1 is known as a world traveler. |