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...biography ever written, is a task that appears to damn the writer before his ink meets paper. All the more so if one considers that Frank Brady's new book on Boswell's later years completes the cycle started with the 1966 study of Boswell's early years by Federick Pottle, the most esteemed Boswell scholar in literary history. Yet Johnson, who himself overcame a lifetime of adversity, might well have admired a man who persevered despite such an intimidating legacy. Brady's years spent scrutinizing the Boswell papers at Yale, his close association with Pottle, and his obvious affection...

Author: By Nicholas T. Dawidoff, | Title: Biographer Biographied | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

...Federick B. Edwards: Manager Cross country and Track, Executive Board of Crimson Key Society, Secretary of Undergraduate Athletic Council, Treasurer IVY Films...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 50 Chooses Class Committee Today | 12/14/1949 | See Source »

Because he was fed up with coastwise tankers after two years, Seaman Federick Herman of Fayetteville, N.Y. had signed on for the Atlantic run. His thought that Sunday morning, when the alarm bell rang, was: "Here I am on a Liberty ship jammed to the gunwales with Russian supplies in the biggest convoy the British have tried to punch through. So the Germans will put on their biggest show." He ran on deck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Voyage to the U. S. S. R. | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

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