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Halfbacks Steve Harrison of Harvard and Gary Bonner of Brown have been the workhorses of their offenses this season, compiling impressive rushing and scoring statistics, and they have both done it the same way--with finesse and speed, rather than power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Booters, Gridders Meet Highly-Rated Brown Teams Today | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

...Lowry's struggle with his demons (including a suicide attempt in 1946) had been more productive than was generally known. Among three unfinished novels, six or seven unpublished stories and hundreds of poems, he left 705 pages of typescript, which Lowry's second wife, Margerie Bonner Lowry. and Editor Douglas Day have now wrestled into book form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death of the Optimist | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

Improvement by typical graduates in words per minute.* Easy Easy Easy Dif. Dif. Name Occupation Bg. End. Bg. End Burns, K., engineer 440 1536 272 2464 Bonner, P., sales rep. 292 816 320 840 Honeywell Carlson, E., engineer 240 1000 210 1100 Cleary, M., salesman 365 1728 240 1920 Dushman, B., B.U. student 536 2583 522 2510 Fabiyi, E., trainee, A.D.L. 220 1584 270 780 Hamlen, D., ins't supervisor 490 1500 402 1000 Hoagland, J., vice pres. 320 3000 236 1160 Jones, L., assoc. prof. 415 3225 280 2416 Jones, M., math teacher 362 624 260 1160 Turner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Meet George Scialabba, 19 He likes to play Squash He is a Junior at Harvard He can read 2000 words a minute | 9/25/1967 | See Source »

When Geneticist James Bonner appears on-screen to speculate about a test-tube superman race between the nations of the world a century from now, the uneasy viewer may feel that he is in the tank with those frogs. A man will "not "brazenly go out and propagate himself," Bonner predicts coolly, but will contribute sperm cells to a central bank, his heirs to be manufactured after his death if a committee decides that he has been a desirable and useful figure in society. On this forecast, echoing the ancient complaint against Plato's "Guardians," English Professor Ritchie Calder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Son of 20th Century | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

Theory & Practice. In their specialties, the two schools have been world pacesetters. Caltech's astronomers use the telescopes at Mount Wilson and Palomar observatories, and with Maarten Schmidt have explored the unusual nature of quasi-stellar objects (TIME cover, March 11). Its biologists and chemists, including James Bonner and Linus Pauling, have advanced knowledge of the basic chemistry of human life. Physicist Richard Feynman is helping to unify the theories of gravitational and electrodynamic fields, and his colleague, Murray Gell-Mann, broke new ground in subatomic theory by correctly predicting the existence of new particles. Seismologist Charles F. Richter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: Caltech & M.I.T.: Rivalry Between the Best | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

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