Word: authority
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through a war himself, would naturally be inclined to super-criticism of the conduct of this one. Between Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Lloyd George has long existed something less than mutual amity. During the last war Mr. Lloyd George appointed Mr. Chamberlain Director-General of National Service. Summed up Author Lloyd George later in his memoirs: "It was not one of my successful selections...
Died. Dr. Harvey Gushing, 70, world's No. 1 brain surgeon, author of Pulitzer-Prizewinning Life of Sir William Osler (1925), father-in-law of the President's eldest son, James Roosevelt; of a heart attack; in New Haven, Conn. Bright-eyed, white-haired Harvey Cushing's slight & stooped figure was gigantic in neurology (see p. 71). He taught and worked at Johns Hopkins, Harvard and Yale, perfected almost single-handed the techniques of many brain and nerve operations. Caring little for relaxation, less for social affairs, he labored phenomenally, sometimes spent eight hours on an operation...
Engaged. Oliver La Farge II, 38, archeologist, author who gave fine publicity to New Mexico in his Pulitzer-Prizewinning Laughing Boy; and Consuelo Otille ("Billie") Baca, 26, daughter of Mrs. Marguerite Pendaries Baca, onetime Secretary of State for New Mexico; in Santa...
...fictional account of the war ended with the Loyalist victory at Brihuega in March 1937. Bessie's personal story of eight months in the Lincoln Battalion begins in February 1938, six weeks before the battalion was cut to pieces in the Fascist drive to the sea. The author, a gifted short story writer and ex-Guggenheim fellow, took part in that retreat and later in the last desperate offensive across the Ebro River...
...lawns. The little towns of the Midwest, the hitchhikers, lunchroom girls, farmers, high school kids, old people, down-and-outers, all pass by in Prokosch's limpid prose, phantasmagoria hauntingly created but incredible in a landscape sensuously seen, smelt and touched but unrecognizable. It is the same with Author Prokosch's ponderings: relevant, plausible, portentous and flimsy. Aware of the flimsiness, he attributes it to his material: "No crisis or tragedy [in America] becomes exact. The great struggles do not lie in the individual, they lie in the land, they are tribal and regional...