Religion: Y.W.C.A.'s 50th

The Y.W.C.A. is no longer exclusively C. That was the big news of the 50th anniversary of the World's Young Women's Christian Association, celebrated last week in some 400 U.S. cities and a dozen foreign lands.

The Y.W. now flourishes in 53 nations, with some 1,500,000 members. Their activities range from sports to classes in stenography, from providing board & room for city working girls to running summer vacation camps for youngsters. Currently the Y.W. is hard at work in war zones, with some 20 rest and recreation centers (including a houseboat on the Nile at Cairo) which provide servicewomen with...

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