Word: carl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...learning all the time. Charlie spent his whole life saturated in this sort of thing." His father is Mark Van Doren, 62, Pulitzer Prizewinning poet and professor of English at Columbia; his mother, Dorothy, is a onetime editor (on The Nation) who has published five novels; his late Uncle Carl, whom he idolized, was a Pulitzer Prize biographer, a topflight literary critic and, like Mark, a prolific man of letters who wrote in virtually every form that exists between covers...
Mark's family shuttled between a sprawling 18th century farmhouse on 150 acres in Cornwall, Conn, and a house on Greenwich Village's Bleecker Street, where an evening's conversation struck sparks from a roomful of such guests as Carl, Mortimer Adler, Clifton Fadiman, Critic Joseph Wood Krutch, Columnist Franklin P. Adams, Lawyer Morris L. Ernst, Novelist Sinclair Lewis. "We'd be talking along," recalls Fadiman, "and then we'd look up and there would be two little kids in pajamas, hanging over the banister, eavesdropping." Charles's mother would pack...
...kindly, industrious country doctor and farmer. His wife, Eudora A. Butz, was a stern taskmaster who at the age of ten carried the mail on horseback across the prairies. Married in 1883, they raised a family of five boys. "We lived together in a busy tumult," wrote Carl, the oldest of those sons, in his autobiography Three Worlds, "in a close-knit affection which the later scattering of the family has never weakened...
...effort to determine the type of student interested in coming to Harvard next fall, Carl Kaysen, associate professor of Economics, and Louis Lefeber, instructor in Economics, traveled to New York City last week to interview some of the Hungarian refugees in that area...
Under steadily mounting pressure from the Kadar government, every Western correspondent in Budapest save Associated Press Veteran Carl Hartman had pulled out of Hungary last week. In the past fortnight, six of the seven remaining reporters for Western wire services and newspapers have either been expelled by the government or voluntarily left Hungary because they were no longer free to gather news. Among the last to leave: Endre Marton, a Hungarian citizen who for ten years has been Budapest correspondent for Associated Press, and his wife, United Press Stringer Ilona Nyilas. The Martons, who were imprisoned in 1955 on trumped...