Word: hatter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the meal Oliver went to his book-crammed quarters (he said he always expected the Mad Hatter to appear crying out "No room, no room"), where he held open house far into the night. Students dropped in "just for a moment," stayed hours on end. Tired in body, he generally sat propped...
...Hatter of Alice's Wonderland had nothing on Ed Wagenfeld of Local 45 of the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union. But this latter day hatter, who divides his time between Adams House and Littauer as one of the fellows under Harvard's Trade Union plan, isn't eccentric like Lewis Carroll's haberdasher. He's just peeved; peeved at "hatless Harvard." Hats are bread and butter to Mr. Wagenfeld. Harvard men care very much for bread and butter; very little for hats...
Archibald Joseph Cronin seldom makes such mistakes either. His first novel, Hatter's Castle, sold 70,649 copies; and he has been writing best-sellers or near bestsellers ever since. His case proves again that a writer can succeed with any subject provided he writes excitingly enough...
...Father Chisholm's. He pulled himself out of it with the help of Carnegie Foundation scholarships and his uncle, a poor, kindly Catholic priest (the model for Father Chisholm). By working until he often dropped exhausted, Cronin became a doctor. But he really wanted to paint or write. Hatter's Castle enabled him to give up medicine: he has never practiced since...
Jupiter Laughs (by Dr. A. J. Cronin, produced by Warner Bros.). In his first play, Dr. Cronin (Hatter's Castle, The Citadel) dwells moodily on the hoary conflict between science and religion. Prime ingredients of his dramatic formula: an agnostic young medico who swears and leches, a lady physician who loves the Lord...