Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis newspapermen looked knowing last week as they read the official announcement that the Star-Times's Managing Editor Frank W. Taylor was quitting after 32 years "to take a well-earned rest." They knew that big (6 ft. 3), bellowing, brilliant, 53-year-old Editor Taylor, rated one of the ablest editors in the U.S., was getting out because he and Publisher Elzey Roberts had agreed to disagree...
Parade's prospectus promises an editorial budget of $100,000 a month. Among its promised "43 Camera Men, 137 Brilliant Reporters," the eight identified are all present /"Mites: Ben Robertson Jr., Kenneth Crawford, Ben Hecht...
...their bravery in fighting Spanish rule, William of Orange three and a half centuries ago offered Leyden's burghers the gift of i) a university, or 2) freedom from taxation. They chose the university. Last November Nazis took over the university and promptly fired one of its most brilliant and popular professors, 61-year-old Eduard Maurits Meyers...
...could to the abolition of white slavery. . . . Look after my plays and look after my films. They are all devoted to the abolition of that sort of slavery." Although this thesis produces a lot of talk in Major Barbara, it is the kind of talk that cinemaddicts seldom hear-brilliant, provocative, richly comic. It is solidly backed up by a baker's dozen of superb acting performances. As the author's chief protagonist, lucent Wendy Killer (Pygmalion's Eliza Doolittle) is the Salvation Army major who believes that the pure in heart will inherit the earth, only...
Israel James Kapstein (Brown '26), undergraduate friend of pinwheel-minded S. J. Perelman and the late brilliant Nathanael West (The Day of the Locust), went back to Brown in 1927, has taught English there ever since. Although he publishes his first novel at the dangerously retarded age of 37, it is a good...