Word: authored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dean, author of a book on U.S. foreign policy, will discuss "New Trends in Foreign Policy" at the lecture, which is open to all University students...
...case of arrested development." He was raised comfortably in London, great-grandson of a Dutch-descended Englishman who grew rich on inventions such as the tantalus, a contrivance to keep Victorian housemaids out of the port. Betjeman went to Oxford's Magdalen College, where he detested his tutor (Author C. S. Lewis), failed to get a degree because he forgot to take "divvers" (divinity...
...Across Paris, a collection of twelve remarkable short stories, walk through walls, don seven-league boots, and play chess with stuffed owls. If the meanings are not always crisp and clear, the prose is. In his stories as in his novels (The Barkeep of Blemont, The Second Face) Author Ayme follows one rule: put all of life's ironies in the creative fire...
Other stories range from the fantastic to the philosophical. Martin the Novelist is a Pirandelphic yarn in which characters search out the author and argue their rights and reality. The Wine of Paris presents a mad alcoholic, a most happy fella who thinks that other people are bottles of wine. With its cork-popping wit and full-bodied bouquet of pain, joy and wonder, Across Paris is vintage Ayme from a small but peerless literary vineyard...
Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-12 noon). Another in the series of dissertations on the greatest minds. Subject: Albert Einstein, author of the plot (E = mc2) that was the most dramatic of them...