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Word: alberts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Lyman Bryson, 71, longtime professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University, who discussed the philosophers from the Greeks to Bertrand Russell over CBS radio beginning in 1938 (The People's Platform, Invitation to Learning), broadcast literate conversations with such contemporary thinkers as Arnold Toynbee and Albert Einstein; of cancer; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 7, 1959 | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...note to the reader that what she has written is not an autobiography, but the book's heroine is a girl named Katherine Dunham who grew up near Chicago, as did the author, the daughter of an American Negro man and a light-skinned French Canadian woman. Albert Dunham, the sullen, tormented father, dominates the story. Ambitious and immature, he marries beautiful Fanny June Taylor, a well-to-do woman many years older than he, and for a time is able to regard himself as a man of property. But not long after Katherine is born, his wife dies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Long Night's Journey | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Ford Startime (NBC, 9-10:30 p.m.). My Three Angels: Sam and Bella Spewack's TV adaptation of their own Broadway adaptation of Albert Husson's La Cuisine des Anges, a bizarre comedy about convicts in French Guiana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: Time Listings, Dec. 7, 1959 | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...felt that the nomination deadline had been adequately publicized," Committee chairman Albert L. Jacobs, Jr. '61, commented, although the Seniors' petition had referred specifically to the "inadequate publicity" and the "unfortunate timing" of the deadline...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Council Bars Late Petition On Marshals | 12/2/1959 | See Source »

...mechanics of the petition--stating the sole considerations of "inadequate publicity" and "unfortunate timing." On these grounds, we were able to collect about 300 signatures of dissatisfied seniors before the issue was completely clouded by yesterday's letter claiming that it is a personal petition. Patrick Liles Albert F. Cullen, Jr. Michael Graney Paul G. Kirk, Jr. Kelvin L. Kean David M. Donaldson John B. Watkins Michael Donahue

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MARSHAL PETITIONS (CONTINUED) | 12/2/1959 | See Source »

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