Word: hereward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of Michigan's Hereward T. Price, 69, roly-poly Shakespearean scholar and associate editor of the university's Middle English Dictionary. The son of a British missionary, he was born in Madagascar, went to Oxford, taught in Germany, was drafted into the German army in World War I, was captured by the Russians, escaped to edit a newspaper in Peking, finally got to Michigan in 1929. Through 20 years' teaching Professor Price never got over the wonders of Shakespeare, could hardly read a line without striding about the classroom and thundering at his students...
...Knows?, on a four-station MBS network for Griffin's shoe polish Saturday nights 8:30 to 8:45 E.S.T., is the latest thing in radio ghost stories. Its talebearer is gaunt, ghost-grey Dr. Hereward Carrington, director of the American Psychical Institute, an oldtime spook-hunter who likes to spend his vacations in haunted houses. Last week Who Knows? spun a yarn about a composer who came back after death with the finale to a concerto left unfinished at his death. This week a Scotland Yard detective solves a murder mystery by premonition. The trade's handy...
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