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Except for his spaniel's head with its "long, flapping ears [and] wide, gaping jaws," little Edmond was a normal child. In moments of optimism, his father, M. Du Chaillu, saw no reason why Edmond should not take up law, for instance. But even as a youngster, Edmond developed some disturbing manners-such as fetching the daily paper between his teeth. He had, it seemed, "the soul of a man," but he was dogged by what his father called "canine predestination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Capital Offense | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

Playwright Arthur Miller and theatrical designer Robert Edmond Jones '10, will give the Spencer lectures for 1953, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory and chairman of the invitation committee, announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Miller, Jones Will Give All Spencer Lectures in 1953 | 11/25/1952 | See Source »

...Turning Point (Paramount) dramatizes a timely subject: a crime-investigating committee, complete with television coverage. The picture's plot is less up to date: a hard-hitting attorney (Edmond O'Brien), in the course of investigating a big-city crime syndicate, discovers that his policeman father (Tom Tully) is mixed up with the gangsters. Further complications set in when O'Brien's chum, Reporter William Holden, falls in love with the attorney's girl friend (Alexis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 3, 1952 | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

...nothing to do with the need for nourishment." The propagation of this great truth has brought the 220-lb. prince not only his title and his brave paunch but an endless succession of free meals. His only regret is that he realized it so late. Born plain Maurice-Edmond Sailland, he ate well, as most people do in his native Loire valley, up to the age of 15, but only for the sake of sustenance. Then his wealthy family hired an illiterate peasant girl named Marie Chevalier as their cook. A native genius, Marie could whip up sauces creamy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Heroic Stomach | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

...Edmond R. Schroeder '53, president of the HYRC, who earlier this week challenged the HLU to justify liberal support of the Stevenson-Sparkman ticket on the basis of its civil rights position, charged that its reply consisted of "a shotgun blast at Eisenhower, Nixon, and myself, and completely evaded the issue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HYRC Disclaims HLU as Evasive; Blasts Sparkman | 10/23/1952 | See Source »

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