Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: ... I take exception to your March 8 feature, pp. 19 to 24, favoring "Albert Undone," poor George VI. This is the most uncharacteristic article TIME has carried, approaching fatuity in some of its uncritical assertions. I can not imagine my favorite editors becoming sycophantic, but if that write-up is not a press hand-out from His Majesty's Bureau of Canterbury Tales, then I am Bumbler Baldwin. Well do I realize that you must depend upon some source for the validity of human-interest reporting, but what proof has TIME that neurologically unstable George VI "today...
...came Albert the Good, a dual biography of Victoria and Albert by Mr. Bolitho which first caught everyone's eye because it was illustrated with gaudy, excruciating Victorian color plates and valentines-these discreetly printed with not a single reference to them in the text. This clever method of flash-sale got people to buy what they found to be just about the best Royal Family book since Strachey's Queen Victoria. Next year Biographer Bolitho did England's affluent Jew, a stuffily imposing Alfred Mond: First Baron Melchett. By last year he was the Royal Family...
...American Neutrality, 1914-1917", James P. Baxter, Professor of History, May 4; concerts by the Glee Club on May 11, May 18, and May 25; organ recitals on May 11 and May 25 by Archibald T. Davison '05, Professor of Choral Music; and "The Political System of Japan", Dr. Albert E. Hindmarsh, instructor in Government, May 18. The station broadcasts on 6.04 and 11.79 metacycles...
Besides Bacon those on the committee of elections are William Phillips '00, of Washington, D. C., Albert A. Sprague '98, of Chicago, George Whitney '07, of New York, and Samuel H. Wolcott...
...Albert Schweitzer's description of this work is one of the very best and is here quoted: "The story of the Passion is cast in a series of pictures. At the characteristic points the narrative breaks off and the scene that has just passed is made the subject of a pious meditation. This is effected in arias that are usually led up to by an arioso-like recitative. At minor resting points the feelings of the Christian spectators are expressed in chorale verses...