WOMEN: Miss Alice at Home

Miss Alice M. Robertson of Oklahoma, the second woman ever to sit in Congress, returned to her home in Oklahoma. She was defeated for re- election last Fall, and now she says that she is through with politics— except for writing an account of her experience in Congress. "I have permission to print it in the Congressional Record and my first move will be to lock myself in a room and finish it. It will be my farewell to politics." The cafeteria business, which she abandoned at the time she entered Congress, she...

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