Word: creator
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FRANK BALDWIN JEWETT: DOCTOR OF SCIENCE, of New York City, electrical engineer, President of the Bell Telephone Laboratories since 1925. "The creator of a famous laboratory whence came miracles of modern telephony, an engineer who points the way for industry to follow...
...NOTE ON LITERARY CRITICISM-James T. Farrell-Vanguard ($2.50). The creator of Studs Lonigan berates the reigning Leftist critics for their failure to acknowledge the "refreshment-value" of literature, insists that criticism must be "rationally established," not "absolutized and fixed...
HERE are three books on war that are eminently worth reading. They are varied in tone and content but the philosophy behind them all is the same. They are written (respectively) by a famous English whimsicalist, creator of "Winnie the Pooh"; a not so well-known Irish satirist; and a senior at Princeton University who is National Commander of the Veterans of Future Wars. The latter two are extremely witty and amusing, the first is inexorably logical and serious...
...denounce psychoanalysis a fortnight ago when its creator Dr. Sigmund Freud was celebrating his 80th birthday would have seemed an ungracious act. Last week bars were down and psychiatrists, notorious among doctors for insistent talkativeness, gave tongue. Loudest sound & fury broke in Manhattan, at a meeting of the New York Neurological Society...
Died. Humorist Finley Peter Dunne, 68, creator of the famed fictional seriocomic seer "Mr. Dooley"; of cancer of the throat; in Manhattan. A Chicago journalist, in 1892 Dunne patterned "Mr. Dooley" after one James McGarry, whose bar he frequented. With his pungent comments on public figures and affairs ("Politics ain't a bean bag. 'Tis a man's game, an' women, childher and pro-hybitionists's do well to keep out iv it."), Mr. Dooley was for 20 years a national institution...