Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...EDWIN L. ROGERS...
...LAST HURRAH (427 pp.)-Edwin O'Connor-Atlantic-Little, Brown...
Curley's chronicler, Novelist Edwin Greene O'Connor, 38, is a onetime radio announcer who made $720 from his first novel, and shelved the second in disgust. This one is already a smash success. Even before publication, Columbia Pictures bought the movie rights for $150,000. The novel also won the Atlantic Prize, was chosen by the Book-of-the-Month Club (February) and Reader's Digest Book Club. It is the bristling, flamboyant saga of the decline and fall of the big city boss...
...Edwin B. Newman, lecturer on Psychology, whose bill H.801 is in committee, yesterday declared himself in favor of "P.R." and "the kind of good government represented by the Cambridge Civic Association." His plan, proposed for the second consecutive year, is merely a substitute, in case the current system of "P.R." elections is changed...
...staffers and alumni of its graduate school have advised virtually every executive agency and congressional committee in Washington on subjects ranging from highways to health insurance. When the President's Council of Economic Advisers was formed in 1946, it seemed natural to pick Brookings' Vice President Edwin G. Nourse as its first chairman...