03-27 TABLE of CONTENTS:
DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
QUOTE by
Boswell.
The complete episode for this date...
...will be published here soon.
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03-27 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
B. 03-27-1868, Patty Smith Hill, kindergarten pioneer, first
woman named professor emeritus at Columbia University. Inventor of the
Patty Hill construction blocks with which children can build structures
large enough to play in. Introduced flexible, natural methods and by teaching
teachers caused extensive permanent change in our educational system.
B. 03-27-1880, Ruth Hanna McCormick
Simms, a remarkable political organizer, was U.S. Representative, IL
1929-31. As a Republican she lost as a result of the depression. She was
a newspaper publisher in her own right. Her father was the Republican mover
and shaker, Mark Hanna.
B. 03-27-1899, Gloria Swanson, actress, businesswoman.
B. 03-27-1953, Annemarie Proell, Austrian ski racer, winner of
women's World Cup ski champion five times, a record for men or women.
Event: 03-27-1964: Thirty-seven good citizens of a middle class neighborhood
in Queens, NY, watched the brutal murder of Kitty Genovese from the
windows of their homes and apartments and did nothing about it as she screamed
for help.
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QUOTES DU JOUR
BOSWELL:
"Confusion of (the
male's) progeny constitutes the essence of the crime [adultery]; and therefore
a woman who breaks her marriage vows is much more criminal than a man who
does it. A man, to be sure, is criminal in the sight of God; but he does
not do his wife a very material injury if he does not insult her if, for
instance, from mere wantonness of appetite, he steals privately to her
chambermaid. Sir, a wife ought not greatly to resent this. I would not
receive home a daughter who had run away from her husband on that account."
--
Boswell's Life of Johnson, 1791
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