Word: drew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still $20,000, and though the library is climbing up to par and the college has about the proper proportion of Ph.D.'s on its faculty, it cannot approach the association until Langston balances his budget. But where will the money come from? One corporation recently with drew a promised gift of $12,500 because Eureka was not accredited. The Ford Foundation's big ($260 million) windfall specifically excluded nonregionally accredited campuses...
...novels. Gulley Jimson, the rascally painter of The Horse's Mouth, bore the knowing brush strokes of Gary's three-year try at being an artist in turn-of-the-century Paris and Edinburgh. In Mr. Johnson, still the best novel written about modern Africa, Gary drew on his tours of duty as an officer in British West Africa during and after World War I. In A House of Children, written in 1941 and now published in the U.S. for the first time, Novelist Gary summons up memories of a rollickingly un-Victorian childhood in Ireland. Calling himself...
Crusade in Europe. In Würzburg, West Germany, U.S. loth Infantry Division Private Frank Asztolos drew a $50 fine and a 30-day suspended sentence for "willfully disobeying the orders of his mess sergeant to cease serving the troops such large portions of potatoes...
...that Maurice E. Travis, ex-secretary-treasurer of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, had perjured himself by filing the non-Communist affidavits required of union leaders by the Taft-Hartley Act. Last week, up for sentencing before U.S. District Judge Jean S. Breitenstein, Travis, 45, drew eight years in prison and an $8,000 fine-the heaviest punishment yet inflicted for perjury on a Taft-Hartley affidavit. Said Communist Travis: "I have been a radical, a nonconformist all my adultlife . . . The Taft-Hartley law would have me resign from all that's not in conformity...
...Drew Pearson's week. First, Columnist Pearson apologized for his recent charge (branded a "scurrilous lie" by Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty) that President Eisenhower had taken a hand in the "giveaway" of Oregon timberland to Al Sarena Mines, Inc. (TIME, Feb. 6). Next, after five expensive years of legal maneuvers, Pearson quietly dropped his $5,100,000 damage and libel suits against Senator Joe McCarthy, Columnists Westbrook Pegler, Fulton Lewis Jr., and six others (TIME, March 12, 1951). At week's end, having thus turned both cheeks, Pearson was slapped with a $250,000 libel suit...