Word: doren
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million or more people besides the hero of Hemingway's newest novel read Red Smith's syndicated column every day in the Herald Tribune and 24 other newspapers, and most of them like him very much indeed. Professor Mark Van Doren has read Smith's columns to his Columbia University English classes. Humorist Frank Sullivan rates Smith "a humorist of purest ray serene." Smith's friendly rival on the New York Journal-American, Frank Graham, who travels south every year with Red to cover spring baseball training, calls him, "the country's best sports writer...
...Erskine was his old self, drawing students into flashing arguments (he once reduced Mortimer Adler, now an eminent University of Chicago professor and an important-books man himself, to tears). He urged them on to "nobler loves and nobler cares." As the course grew, younger teachers-Poet Mark Van Doren, Philosopher Irwin Edman, Historian Jacques Barzun, Critic Lionel Trilling and Philosopher Mortimer Adler -came to help...
...Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas, Playwright Robert Sherwood, Historian Carl Van Doren, Commentator Raymond Swing, and Cass Canfield, chairman of the board of Harper's, which published Streit's book...
Walter B. Teague, president of the Society, is scheduled to open the series next week. Later forum speakers include David Chapman, designer for Montgomery Ward, Harold Van Doren of Beech Aircraft, and Theodore Clement, head of Eastman Kodak's style division...