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...clear, candid mind, especially quick at spotting new trends. Her 1964 essay, "Notes on 'Camp,' " is a minor classic, a sharp, entertaining catalogue that did much to popularize-and overpopularize-the Ins and Outs of the camp phenomenon. Her one novel in those days was The Benefactor (TIME, Sept. 13, 1963), an opaque tale about a dandified dreamer who cannot figure out whether he killed his wife in a nightmare or in cold blood. Death Kit is much the same. The hero is a junior executive named Diddy, and the question is, Did he, while traveling...
...eleventh hour, however, Congress gave the Teacher Corps both operating funds for the present and prospects for a prosperous future. Its surprise benefactor was the House, which earlier had played the beadle. Much of the House's opposition to the Teacher Corps had centered on the old issue of federal control over local education. After the program was dropped from an omnibus school bill this year, it was sent to an education subcommittee headed by Oregon Democrat Edith Green, a former schoolteacher whose firm ideas about education often differ from those of the Johnson Administration...
...preceding months Trotsky had been deserted and renounced by some of his closest associates, including his Mexican protector and benefactor, the painter Diego Rivera. And in May, 1940, Trotsky's home was subjected to an armed-raid, apparently at the instigation of Joseph Stalin. Around 4 a.m. a group of assailants broke into Trotsky's home and pumped about 200 machine gun bullets into Trotsky's bedroom. Although the attack left him miraculously unharmed Trotsky became increasingly concerned about his own safety and the safety of his papers...
Wilson assumed control of his father's Haloid Company in 1946 and within two years had committed the company (now Xerox) completely to xerography. I proved to be one of the most successful industrial developments of the decade. He was cited as "an eminent industrial reader and exemplary benefactor of education and public causes...
...Lindbergh turned to Daniel Guggenheim, telling the philanthropist: "As far as I can tell, Goddard knows more about rockets than anybody else in the country," and "if we're ever going beyond airplanes and propellers, we'll probably have to go to rockets." Guggenheim, already a spirited benefactor of aeronautical progress, was convinced. During the 1930s, the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation aided Goddard's work with $190,000 in grants, hardly enough to fuel a Saturn rocket today, but then enough to permit the Father of Modern Rocketry to build sophisticated systems that became the basis...