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...Sweet Encyclopedist. Jimmy is probably the hardest-working millionaire extant. He eats little (two raw eggs for breakfast), sleeps little (about five hours), reads widely (keeps an encyclopedia in the bathroom). Jackson and Roth never leave him alone; all three continually fuss over each other's colds, headaches. Jimmy goes to the cemetery every Sunday-in New York, to visit his father's grave; in Holly wood, to decorate his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jimmy, That Well-Dressed Man | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...some years the identity of the author of Topics of The Times was a matter for speculation; usually he is Simeon Strunsky, 63-year-old editor, essayist, ex-encyclopedist (New International...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Education, Jul. 12, 1943 | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

...Encyclopedie les Encyclopedist," Professor Allard, Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/13/1934 | See Source »

...trustees over a four-year-old medical supervision policy??was kept secret, and Dr. Abbott was kept headmaster, chiefly through action of the Lawrenceville boys. They posted a deputy to keep strangers from their grounds. They observed a self-imposed censorship of conversation. If that traditional confidant and encyclopedist of Lawrenceville's most intimate affairs, the keeper of the Jigger Shop, knew anything, he too kept silent. The Lawrence. undergraduate newspaper, printed a big headline: "DR. ABBOTT IS LAWRENCEVILLE." Joseph Espy, student school president, and Gordon Smith, vice president, performed the unprecedented act of appearing before the trustees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Denver | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

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