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Died. The Rev. John J. Wynne, S.J., 89, leading Jesuit scholar, founder and onetime editor of the famed Roman Catholic Encyclopedia (1903-14) and the Catholic weekly America (1909); in The Bronx...
...Remake of the 1941 Goldwyn production Ball of Fire, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper. In the original, a group of scholars writing an encyclopedia learned about slang from Nightclub Queen Stanwyck. In A Song Is Born, the scholars are writing a history of music, fill in the chapter on jazz from "live" studies...
Compared to the largesse that soda-pop barons, pearl merchants and encyclopedia publishers scatter for works of art, the prizes from Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute are penny ante stuff. First prize at the Carnegie amounts to only $1,500, but it is still the most honorable award of the season...
Last week, retired to his pleasant Mary land farm, Entomologist Hyslop was ad mittedly a pro-insect man; his enemy had won him over. It was all in the record: 189 notebooks, his life work. In print, his Encyclopedia of Economic Insects, describing the life & times of 30,000 North American species, will fill 1,900 pages, from Abacarus hystrix (a mite) to Zygogramma exclamationis (a beetle...
...student of Latin at the age of eight, McColl had already read a 20-volume encyclopedia by that time, and moved on to reading the Encyclopedia Britannica for relexation...