Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fesler came to Harvard last year fresh from a brilliant career at Ohio State. Twice he was chosen an All-American end and he was a star of the basketball and baseball teams. Last fall he was used to coach the kickers but this season he will take complete charge of the end situation...
TIME is glad to pay belated tribute to able Father George Sibley Johns. Short, genial, brilliant Editor Johns, now 76, still turns out an occasional editorial for the Post-Dispatch. He joined forces with the elder Pulitzer when, as editor of an opposition paper, he conducted a vigorous editorial campaign to aid Pulitzer's suit against his partner, Charles H. Jones. He went to the Post-Dispatch in 1883, served as dramatic critic, city editor, managing editor, editor of the editorial page...
...Henry Landau's first vivid recollections are of the Boer War. Two languages were his by inheritance. German he acquired later as a boy at school in Dresden. In his travels about Europe he improved his French, picked up Flemish. He graduated from Cambridge where "scholastically I was a brilliant success," went in for engineering (Colorado School of Mines, London School of Mines). When the War came he joined an ambulance unit, was transferred to the artillery where he rose to a captaincy. When in 1916 British espionage was practically wiped out by the efficient German counter-espionage service which...
...General von Prittwitz' staff was a brilliant Lieut.-Colonel named Max Hoffman. When the new commander arrived from Hanover, Col. Hoffman explained to Hindenburg and Ludendorff a supremely bold plan of counterattack which they proceeded to make their own. In Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War Col. Hoffman had seen the appalling lengths to which Tsarist inefficiency could go. He was able to believe and convince Ludendorff that the Russian wireless which kept flashing to St. Petersburg the intended moves of Generals Samsonov and Rennekampf "in clear" was not attempting to deceive the enemy, as other German generals thought...
...faintly Hearstian phosphorescence. Considering herself a feline type, she strews her house in London, Paris, Hollywood with tiger and leopard skins, keeps two Persian cats who understand, she says, everything that is said to them. She and her sister as débutantes in London were famed for their brilliant wardrobe, much of it designed and made by themselves. Elinor Glyn began to write as a girl when she was confined by illness, never recovered from the habit. Since 1900 she has produced 28 books, ten films, and in spite of their internal evidence, is regarded by millions...