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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Chicago the soothing ladies'-club voice of Eleanor Roosevelt was heard saying: "It is unfortunate when anyone feels the strain they are under so greatly that they are unable to think things through . . . But you must realize that President Truman is carrying the greatest load in history"-even greater, she added, than that carried by her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Time for a Rest | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

MacLeish cited examples of large audiences unable to obtain seats or enduring great discomfort at recent lectures given by Eleanor Roosevelt, Carl Sandburg, Bertrand Russell, and T. S. Eliot. "Certainly no university wishes to deprive its students of such experiences as these," MacLeish said...

Author: By R. L. Consolini, | Title: Faculty Body to Investigate Building of College Theatre | 2/8/1951 | See Source »

...distinguished group of judges, including Chairman William Van Lennep, curator of the Harvard Theatre Collection, Eleanor Hughes, Boston Herald drama critic, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, novelist Ernest Hemingway and actress Mary Martin made the selection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Senior Wins Scriptwriting Contest | 2/8/1951 | See Source »

...World-Telly's editorial was read, among others, by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, one of its own columnists. She didn't like it. Said she, in her column three days later: "I am sure it will not create greater unity." Besides, Mrs. Roosevelt explained with patient suavity, people (and editorial writers) just do not understand. "The British have accepted certain facts," she said, "and gone along with them...Whereas we have known that our people were not mature enough, either in Congress or throughout the country, to understand if we took similar action as the British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: We Trouble | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

Died. Charles Benedict Driscoll, 65, editor and columnist; of a heart attack; in Yonkers, N.Y. As editor of McNaught Syndicate, he hired as writers such famed names as Eleanor Roosevelt and Albert Einstein. When his star columnist, O.O. Mclntyre, died in 1938, Driscoll took over the "New York Day by Day" column...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 29, 1951 | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

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