Word: barton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When TIME'S Education Editor Bruce Barton Jr. was writing a cover story on Robert M. Hutchins (TIME, Nov. 21, 1949), then chancellor of the University of Chicago, one of the many men he interviewed was Playwright Thornton Wilder. Barton found Wilder to be one of the best authorities on Hutchins. Wilder and Hutchins first met at college (Oberlin and Yale), and Hutchins later invited Wilder to serve on his faculty at Chicago...
...even "the greatest living authority" wasn't enough to produce the rounded picture of Wilder that Barton needed to write his cover story. In addition to interviews with a number of the writer's other friends and early associates, Barton and Researcher Marjorie Burns spent a day with Wilder's sister Isabel at her home in New Haven...
Career: To the money he inherited, Weeks has added a fortune he built as chairman of the board of United-Carr Fastener Corp. (metal fasteners, buckles, clips) and chairman of the board of Reed & Barton Corp. (silverware). A founder of Boston's first Young Men's Republican Club, Weeks developed an early passion for politics. "When you sit around the breakfast table as a boy and hear politics discussed daily, you are bound to develop an interest," he says. He was elected mayor of Newton in 1929, announced at his inauguration: "I want to make it plain that...
...stay out of a major war and not go broke" is the major issue according to W. Barton Leach, Story Professor of Law. He said cuts in the $60 billion defense budget are easy because atomic power has revolutionized warfare...
Advocating the Republican platform will be Dean Griswold, W. Barton Leach, Story Professor of Law, and Robert Braucher, professor of Law. Dean Cavers, Mark De Wolfe Howe, professor of Law, and Donald H. Wollett, professor of Law, will support Adlai E. Stevenson...