Word: craning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Millay, Theodore Dreiser, W. E. Woodward, F. P. Dunne (Mr. Dooley), Horace Liveright, Eugene Debs, Douglas Fairbanks, Eugene O'Neill, Sherwood Anderson, Klaus Mann." And, lamented Sinclair, the roster of hard drinkers among the illustrious he knew through letters or friends was even longer. Among those departed: "Stephen Crane, James Whitcomb Riley, Heywood Broun, Edgar Lee Masters, Edwin A. Robinson, Isadora Duncan, Thomas Wolfe, O. Henry, Ambrose Bierce, Scott Fitzgerald, Hart Crane, John Barrymore, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon, Dylan Thomas." Concluded Sinclair: "After wasting a year trying to please publishers, I am making this appeal to the conscience...
Wolff, a specialist in Near Eastern and Russian history, was chairman of the Committee on International and Regional Studies from 1952 to 1954. He will soon publish a two-volume work "A History of Civilization," in conjunction with professor Crane Brinton '19, and J. B. Christopher...
They read everything from Beardsley's Practical Logic to Crane Brinton's Ideas and Men. They studied the Bible and the Bhagavad-Gita, proceeded to the Iliad, the plays of Sophocles and Shakespeare, Dante's Inferno, The Brothers Karamazov, Remembrance of Things Past, Ulysses, The Magic Mountain and Moby Dick. They read The Portable Medieval Reader and the Autobiography of Cellini, studied the economics of Adam Smith and Marx, of Tawney, Keynes and Executive Suite...
...Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History has been elected to life membership in the National Institute of Arts and Letters, Marc Connelly, president of the institute, announced Monday...
Five years ago, Crane Operator Henry Ciesla was stricken with amyotrophic lat eral sclerosis, an incurable chronic neurological disease. Paralyzed from the throat down, he was placed in an iron lung at Buffalo's Meyer Memorial Hospital; he was not expected to live more than a year. But Ciesla refused to die. With permanent breathing and feeding tubes in his throat and stomach, he stayed cheerful, watched TV via an overhead mirror. Last week a wall-panel fuse in the hospital blew out, stopped the life-preserving iron lung. Alone in his private room, Henry Ciesla died...