Word: barrette
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clubman. In Santa Monica, Calif., exActress Judith Barrett, suing for divorce, charged that millionaire husband Lindsay Howard, a member of the "Vikings Club," always fought a losing battle to uphold the club motto: "A Viking can always drink one more...
Howland Hill Sargeant, to be Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, replacing Edward W. Barrett...
...taking in everyone who wants to join, Williams fraternities will go on just as before, leaving the usual unwanted minority to the non-fraternal Garfield Club. ¶Gift of the week: 50 Edgar Allan Poe items to the University of Virginia Library, from Manhattan Steamship Executive Clifton Waller Barrett (ex-'20). Among the treasures of Alumnus Poe, who left the university in 1826 because of a quarrel with his foster father: first editions of all his books, such manuscripts as a letter to Washington Irving, one of eleven existing copies of Tamerlane and Other Poems-all making Virginia...
Last month the National Writers Club had a how-to-write-a-book exhibit at their Denver headquarters. Denverite William Barrett, who has never been to China, but whose novel about China, The Left Hand of God, stayed on 1951 bestseller lists for nine months, explained some of the research techniques he used. When he starts a book, says Barrett : "I give all my characters a birthday and a birthplace. I set the birthday arbitrarily and then take down a volume of TIME and read through the magazines for that month to find out what was happening then, what...
Smelser, one of the eight men elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year, is a Social Relations major. Two weeks ago, he was given the Palfrey award as the outstanding member of the senior class, and in his freshman year he won the Barrett Wendell Award as the outstanding freshman. He will study political science, economics and philosophy at Oxford...