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Walkout. Cullman has dabbled in stage doings since prepping at Phillips Exeter Academy, where he took part in French plays "which neither the cast nor the audience understood." At Yale, trying to become drama editor of the Yale Courant, he wangled an interview with Sarah Bernhardt. When he asked her, "Do your love affairs help you to understand the parts you are playing?" she walked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Angel Having Fun | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...here, the Foundation brought in 28. The refugees include 16 from Germany's famous Göttingen Mathematical Institute-some ousted Jews, others disgusted "Aryans." Many are "pure" scientists now in the applied field, training students of ballistics, aerodynamics. Three of the Mathematician refugees (including Department Head Richard Courant) are at N.Y.U., two are at Brown, others at Harvard, Chicago, Wisconsin, M.I.T., the New School for Social Research and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Help for Hitler | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

...another sinking ship the gun crew kept blazing away at the sub, shattered the U-boat's periscope before a second torpedo finished off the U.S. vessel. > Somewhere along the Brazilian bulge, a heavily armed Norwegian ship tangled with a U-boat, blew it to bits. > The Hartford Courant reported that marine claims filed against insurance companies for U.S. ships lost since Jan. i were $48,000,000; lost cargo claims were $25,000,000; total $73,000,000. This was $17,000,000 more than the premiums paid, almost completely wiped out all marine-insurance profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: Catalina to the Rescue | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

Sculptor Ziolkowski said the lines came from a letter Webster once wrote to John Jay, but to jittery West Hartfordians this looked like a personal insult. Sniffed the Hartford Courant: "If Mr. Ziolkowski chooses to use his statue of Noah Webster as a billboard on which to publish his feelings toward his fellow townsmen, that, of course, is his business." Wailed the West Hartford Metropolitan Shopping News: "Perhaps he has forgotten, as many men do today, the teaching of the Good Book which advocates in one place the turning of the other cheek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Sculptor & Noah Webster | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

Hartford (pop. 164,072) already had two papers, the dignified old morning Courant, founded in 1764 (circulation: 41,045), and Frank Gannett's afternoon Times (66,970). But if he can sell 10,000 copies a day at 5? apiece (last week's press runs averaged around 8,250), Publisher Clemow thinks he can break even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Offset in Hartford | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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