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...arrived early, TIME Publisher and Mrs. Bernhard Auer held a small, informal cocktail reception at Manhattan's Regency Hotel. The following day, under acres of bright-colored tents, Time Inc. President and Mrs. James A. Linen gave a garden party and buffet dinner at their home in Greenwich, Conn., for more than 100 cover subjects and their TIME escorts and special guests. On the big evening at the Waldorf, Francis Cardinal Spellman began the program with an invocation that made staff members stand straight. "Come into the midst of us, Holy Spirit of Truth, as on this joyous occasion...
...Swarthmore. They give several nights a week to tutoring about 3,500 Negro youngsters in cities all over the Northeast. Results have been undramatically good. In Philadelphia, a survey of 240 kids showed 50% of them doing "a little better" in school and 41% doing "much better." In Hartford, Conn., 13-year-old Pearley-Mae Sampson has hiked her average from C to B under the guidance of Trinity College Senior Henry Whitney, 21. In Harlem, Tutor Carl Anthony took a seventh-grader with third-grade reading ability and in two weeks helped her to get 90 on a seventh...
...letters, a deeply reflective, painfully slow writer who is best known for his massive, five-volume Makers and Finders; A History of the Writer in America, 1800-1915, which took him 20 years to write and spans American literature from Washington Irving to William Faulkner; of cancer; in Bridgewater, Conn. As a critic of his culture, Brooks argued that much of American writing was second rate, that U.S. materialism thwarted genius, and that the true fulfillment of America is yet to come. That it would come, he was certain. The American belief, wrote Brooks, "is that men could be trusted...
Fairfield, Conn...
...member of St. Bernard Masonic Lodge of Boxboro and the Boxboro Grange, Rev. Oxnard leaves two sons, Dr. Edward W. Oxnard '32, of Cheshire, Conn., and Bredford F. Oxnard of Providence, R.I., and a daughter, Mrs. Marian O. Staples of Wisconsin. Rev. Oxnard had eight grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren. He will be buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, Action...