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...refusal of the aged (86) Chancellor to step down (he has agreed to do so some time before the end of next year) and arrange for his successor, most likely Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard. When this was pointed out to him last week, der Alte did not even deign to reply. He only smiled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Hanging On | 7/20/1962 | See Source »

Backroom Gossip. Some of the most rewarding material are autobiographical reminiscences by writers who would not deign to confide to the slick-paper mass magazines. Thus, in effect, the little magazines form a kind of intellectual backroom where earnest highbrows can eaves drop on literary gossip. Seymour Krim (in Noble Savage) is scathingly honest about the pitfalls for a young writer desperate for integrity. Herbert Gold, in the same issue, takes a real cool look at death in the tinselly heat of Miami Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Not-So-Advance Guard | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

Under the direction of John D. Hancock '61, the Loeb will present four plays rom among those written by Brecht, Shaw, Shakespeare, or O'Neill. Charles Hayord '63 and Joel F. Henning '61 are the producers, and Ian Strasfogel '61 will deign the sets...

Author: By C. BOYDEN Gray, | Title: HDC Group to Direct Loeb Summer Plays | 4/13/1961 | See Source »

...exciting teacher," the Graduate English Department information desk bears the legend "Only Charles Van Doren Knows All the Answers." and his students decorate the blackboard with such questions as "For $52,500, what did Plato mean by Justice?" At St. John's, where only two faculty members deign to own TV sets, President Richard Weigle went to a neighborhood bar to catch last week's show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV & Radio: The Wizard of Quiz | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

...brother. In the one role, Edwin reimbursed the Virginia farmer whose barn had been burned down around brother John. In the other, he pleaded with the authorities to allow the Booths to give John's body Christian burial. He wrote to Secretary of War Stanton, who did not deign to reply. He wrote to General Grant, who ignored him too. It was President Andrew Johnson who at last handed over John's remains, the raven-black hair grown long, the body mutilated by official autopsies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hamlet in a Greatcoat | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

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