When Novelist John Hersey (Yale '36) wrote his 15-year class report (TIME, Sept. 8), he proved one thing about Yalemen: they are successful often to the point of glamour. But what about their wives? To answer that question, the Yale Alumni Magazine commissioned Agnes Rogers, an editor of the Reader's Digest and wife of Frederick Lewis (Only Yesterday) Allen* of Harper's Magazine, to dip into the record of the class of '37. Last week, Editor Rogers submitted her report: Mrs. Yale, she found, looks less glamorous in statistics, but she has seen her duty and she does it.
Though three out of...
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