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WILLIAM P. FIDLER General Secretary American Association of University Professors Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 17, 1963 | 5/17/1963 | See Source »

...Dryden quotation from Absalom and Achitophel goes on: Stiff in Opinions, always in the wrong; Was Everything by starts, and Nothing long; But, in the course oj one revolving Moon, Was Chymist, Fidler, Statesman, and Buffoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 25, 1960 | 7/25/1960 | See Source »

...cannot call his Tongue his own, he can scarce call any Thing else his own"). But entertainment always had priority on instruction. None of the humor would draw a belly laugh today, though it was probably uproarious at the time; e.g., "We are informed that one Piles a Fidler, with his Wife, were overset in a Canoo near Newtown Creek. The good Man, 'tis said, prudently secur'd his Fiddle, and let his Wife go to the Bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Sage | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Kirkland is led by George Jacobs, Harold Sadowsky, and 6-foot 4-inch John Fidler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dunster Favored to Capture Intramural Basketball Title | 1/7/1954 | See Source »

...National Kids Day Foundation, Inc., a West Coast organization headed by Hollywood Gossipist Jimmy Fidler, collected $3,978,000 in five years, disbursed a total of $302,000 for charitable purposes. The rest-82% of the take-went into the pockets of professional fundraisers (Fidler receives no salary). Whimpered Fidler: "It seems like they're picking on us for publicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Innocents at Home | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

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