Word: helens
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Entering into retirement after almost 30 years at Columbia University, Sociologist Robert Staughton Lynd, 67, received flowers from students, expressed surprise that so many were present at his last class session. Said Lynd, who with his wife Helen in 1929 published Middletown, a classic sociological case study of U.S. community life: "I hadn't expected there would be any last class as such, but I find that there is. I had expected that I would walk out of Fayerweather Hall, down the steps, out the engine room as I always had, and on to Amsterdam Avenue and take...
...excellent World War II coverage, and to devote an entire issue to John Hersey's report on Hiroshima. Shawn is now handicapped by the fact that most of the writers (Thurber, E. B. White, Wolcott Gibbs, Clifton Fadiman, Joel Sayre, Alva Johnston, et al.) and cartoonists (Peter Arno, Helen Hokinson, O. Soglow, Gardner Rea, et al.) who made The New Yorker famous have either died, wandered off to the exurbs, or become infrequent contributors. E. B. White's civilized despair and gentle celebration of nature is now rarely to be found in "The Talk of the Town," while...
...Miracle Worker. This moving show-about the deaf-mute child, Helen Keller-owes much to the unmatchable acting of Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke...
...elegant, wood-paneled office in the Shell building on London's St. Helen's Court (Shell is building an unspectacular-looking 26-story headquarters on the banks of the Thames), Loudon receives a steady flow of international visitors. "This seems to be my American season," said he last week, after conferring with a stream of U.S. bankers and executives. He logs well over 150 hours of air travel a year, on a recent visit to the Middle East dined with Qatar's Sheik Ahmed (he thoughtfully brought along a rocking horse for the sheik...
...Miracle Worker. This moving show -about the deaf-mute child Helen Keller -owes much to the unmatchable acting of Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke...