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...foreign program, was at his usual position of honor at the venerable oak table in the Schnitzelbank inn, drinking, wheezing and expounding. The small group of students clustered about the master were breathing in the new German philosophy as blandly as they downed the latest Rhine vintages. And the eagerest of these were the "Amis...

Author: By Ernest A. Ostro, | Title: Doublethink Rethought | 11/18/1955 | See Source »

Yearning Readers. England's eagerest astronauts, the slide-rule devotees of the British Interplanetary Society, hoot at the book's "scientific" label. Politely, they suggest that Author Allingham has a highly susceptible imagination or that somebody has elaborately hoaxed him. But Allingham, now undergoing lung treatment at a Swiss sanatorium, cares little if critics point out that saucer pictures have been faked in the past with lampshades, garbage-can covers and trapshooting targets tossed in the air. Such books as his apparently answer a deep and widespread yearning for marvels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Meeting on the Moor | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

Dashing Don Royce says, in defense of his receding hair line, that it's consoling to know that he'll never be old and grey. Is Tom Mullin any relation to the comic character, Moon? Eager Abe Zaleznik gets our vote as the eagerest individual in the unit--a certain roomie of ours notwithstanding. Dante Maggiotto and DeLoretto get the nod as the eagerest...

Author: By The PEARSON Twins, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 4/10/1945 | See Source »

...during the last few months, Kingoro Hashimoto has sat still as a spider, spinning a web of revolt with his subtle talk. He brain-trusted Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye in the latter's return to power, and was one of the eagerest agitators for the dissolution of the old political parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Blood-Red Patriot | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...earliest and eagerest queries received by Washington press associations one evening last week concerning results of Mississippi's and South Carolina's Dem-ocratic primaries (tantamount to elections) came from the White House. The news the White House got was the best send-off President Roosevelt could have had as he started West on his drought-inspection trip that night. By thwacking majorities Mississippi and South Carolina had returned two of the President's most loyal and useful Senators, for each of whom his attachment to the President had been the prime campaign issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Southern Send-Off | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

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