Word: authority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Behrman '16, playwright and author, arrived at Kirkland House yesterday for a week's visit. He will speak in the Kirkland Junior Common Room Monday night and meet with small groups of House members on various occasions during his stay...
...Cannon is the author of several best-selling books, including Red Rust, about raising wheat in Minnesota, and Heirs, about Polish people in New Hampshire. An avowed liberal, she has been prominent in the Birth Control Movement ("I stood for selectivity, not race suicide"), in public school work ("You're deserting your country if you're deserting them"), and in the N.A.A.C.P. In spite of liberal tendencies, Mrs. Cannon was at "sword's point" with son-in-law Schlesinger over the last presidential election. ("My children thought I was crazy...
Directors of the new theatre, Dean Gitter '56, Stephen Aaron '57, and John Eyre '58, announced that the opening attraction will be Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author...
Those who would make a design for living, says Author Powell, must still contend with those who run up a shack of no design and live in it. Despite technological advances, the world will end not with a bang but a Kwimper...
Money Barks. In a similar spirit, the second of these books recalls the familiar theory that the American automobile has become less a means of transportation than a status symbol impossible to define, and lately, impossible to de-fin. Using this as a wheelbase. Author Douglass Wallop (The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant) has produced a pleasant little fiction involving gadgeted and gusseted cars that are driven by a privileged group of dogs. The dogs themselves, of course, are at the mercy of the whims of the designers, i.e., the breeders. Author Wallop's protagonist is Hobbs...