Word: essayant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John E. McNees '60 of Eliot House and Kansas City, Kansas, has been awarded the 1958 Dana Reed Prize for distinguished undergraduate writing, for his CRIMSON feature on "The Quest at Princeton for the Cocktail Soul," an essay on Bicker...
...seat Lunt-Fontanne Theatre-first legitimate playhouse addition to Broadway in 31 years-Actress Helen Hayes, who has a theater named for her right across 46th Street, joined hands with Veteran Troupers Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne under the marquee, presented them with sisterly kisses and a gushing essay in metamorphosis: "This commemorates the moment when the two most beautiful people in the world become the most beautiful theater in the world." Appropriately, the Lunts open the theater dubbed in their honor this week with a play called The Visit-their 37th Broadway production together since...
Gunther remembers himself as "an appalling, monstrous child who wanted to do it all." In the Lake View High School magazine, he broke into type at 16 with an essay on the Russian Revolution. At 20, English Major Gunther wrote 20 U.S. publishers that he would review their books in a literary column he had started in the University of Chicago's Daily Maroon, followed up by soliciting puffs on the column from such critical luminaries as H. L. Mencken and Harry Hansen...
Ceiling Limited. In Arlington, Va., a first-grader entering the Washington Post's "Favorite Teacher" essay contest was full of praise for his Miss Davis, added with an eye on next year: "I wish she was smart enough to teach second grade...
...earn his keep. Author Durrell taught English, and his giggling teen-age girl pupils promptly became infatuated with Teacher. Asked to submit an essay on her favorite historical character, one girl in the class wrote: "I have no historical character but in the real life there is one I love. He is writer. I dote him and he dotes me . . . My glad is very...