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...began teaching philosophy at Columbia University. On the campus one day shortly afterwards he met his old professor, Felix Adler. "What are you doing now?" inquired the professor. "Teaching," said Edman. "Teaching what?" "Philosophy," said Edman. The old man patted the open-faced, blond youth on the back. "How cute!" he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Manhattan Philosopher | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...full Professor of Philosophy. Now 41, and one of Columbia's most popular professors, he is also credited, through his writings, with an increased attendance in philosophy courses at other colleges as well. As a teacher of philosophy he no longer runs the risk of being called cute. As a philosopher in his own right, he might still tempt some old philosopher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Manhattan Philosopher | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Saroyan's cute childhood, his poverty, his poignant memory of every hamburger he ever ate, his nutty relatives-the subjects of most of his previous stories-are the subjects of about half of the 35 stories in The Trouble With Tigers. The other half-exhibiting Saroyan's fiercest inhaling and exhaling to date-consists of stories about Hollywood and essays on the contemporary idiocy of Man in general. Besides working last year as a cinema writer, Saroyan evidently studied up on Dostoyevsky and Whitman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jumping Jack | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Strapping, black-haired, 46, conservatively dressed, grammatical but homespun, Wilbert Lee O'Daniel has further assets in a pretty grey-haired wife named Merle, two good-looking boys in their teens, Pat & Mike, and a cute 16-year-old daughter, Molly. All musical, the children accompanied him and his hillbilly band everywhere. Their meetings soon far surpassed other candidates' in size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Flour Salesman | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...vacancies in Philadelphia's Third Circuit Court of Appeals (TIME, June 13), the President elevated cute, caustic, gangling District Judge William Clark, 47, foe of the late 18th Amendment,* now presiding over C.I.O.'s suit for an injunction against interference with civil liberties in Jersey City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Leafy Spurge & Creeping Jenny | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

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