Word: delancey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Delancey K. Jay Prize went to Robert G. McCloskey 2G for his thesis "The American Conservative Tradition, 1865-1910." For it McCloskey received $300. Harlan P. Hanson '46 was the recipient of the John A. Walz, Jr. Prize as the concentrator in German who passed the best divisional examination...
MARK TWAIN: MAN AND LEGEND-DeLancey Ferguson-Bobbs-Merrill($3). This biography aims "to trace in detail Mark Twain's career as a writing man, passing over lightly or ignoring, his multifarious nonliterary doings. " DeLancey Ferguson (professor of English at Western Reserve University) does an orderly tour of Mark Twain's professional career through his last lonely years, solaced by frenzied billiard games, Baconian theories, a glorified piano player, the dictation of his Autobiography. " Every character he ever wrote about, including Joan of Arc," says Ferguson, "was either drawn from the intensive experience of his first thirty years...
Frank Craven knows the urchins around the corner of Forsyth and Delancey Streets in Manhattan's lower East Side. He watches one of them grow into a scrappy little pug (James Cagney) who almost wins the world's championship, another become a sultry, sirenic dancer (Ann Sheridan), another a sneering gangster named Googi (Elia Kazan),still another a willowy, clean-cut composer (Arthur Kennedy...