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...Little Gid Planish, aged ten, dreams of being something "rotund and oratorical." At college he concludes that virtue has to be organized. At 29 he is Dr. Gideon Planish, Professor of Rhetoric in Kinnikinick College, Iowa. He wears a small brown beard and is ready to jettison his too-provincial mistress. Already expert at self-deception and hypocrisy, he does not get rid of Teckla for his own good, but for hers. Thinks Gideon: "It wouldn't be fair to take her off to New York and Washington and face those snobs and intriguers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fun With Fund-Raising | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

...Gidding has been a script writer for the Crimson Network, one of his works being "About Town With the Gid." Imitations of railroad trains and various dialects have been Hollister's forte. Besides these abilities, the former was a member of last year's Advocate Board, and the latter entered the recent Undergraduate Art. Exhibit in the Germanic Museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hollister and Gidding chosen Ivy Orators | 5/28/1941 | See Source »

...Side Street" is the name of the half hour program, and it's a melange of the real and the fictive, simultaneously satirical and poignant, "The Gid," rising young author, announced in a press release last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gidding Interprets NYC For Network in his "Side Street" | 4/10/1941 | See Source »

Mentioned by one prominent local critic as "the most promising literary artist to have passed through Harvard since T. S. Eliot, "The Gid" is best known for his ventures into musical comedy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gidding Will Produce Second Drama of Network Series | 3/26/1941 | See Source »

...program, which dramatizes life around the Yard in super-realistic fashion, was written and will be produced by Nelson R. Gidding '41, rising young musical comedy author, who is known to thousands of comedy fans on the Coast as "the Gid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REVOLUTIONARY BROADCAST TO COME OVER COLLEGE AIR WAVES | 3/19/1941 | See Source »

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