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Professor Murdock prided himself on Leverett's hospitality to guests of the University. However, several years ago he was preparing to meet Hervey Allen, author of the then best-seller "Anthony Adverse," and discovered several minutes before the reception that no copy of the book could be found. Mr. Murdock himself sprinted up to the Square and bought one in the nick of time, and while the author scrawled his autograph on the fly-leaf, concealed the uncut pages with masterful grace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leigh Hoadly Will Replace Murdock as Hutch Master | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

...never existed, but he might have. His career is a selection of typical incidents from 15 psychopathic case histories vividly presented in The Mask of Sanity (C. V. Mosby Co., St. Louis; $3) by Dr. Hervey Milton Cleckley, professor of neuropsychiatry at the University of Georgia School of Medicine. His case histories read like snatches of William Faulkner rewritten by a less talented hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Semi-Suicides | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

Robert F. Magill 3L, Indianapolis, Ind.; Joseph Gold grL, London, England; Seymour Kleinman 3L, New York, N. Y.; Edward G. Howard, Jr. 2L, Wilmington, Del.; Fred W. Peel, Jr. 2L, Danville, Ky.; Hervey C. Allen, Jr. 2L, Rockland, Me.; Donald K. Anderson 2L, Phoenix, Ariz.; Lars H. Bengston 3L, Minneapolis, Minn.; Russell S. Bernhard 3L, Chicago, Ill.; John A. Bowler 3L, Bradford, Pa.; William A. Centner 2L, Battle Creek, Mich,; Howard L. Clark 2L, Altadena, Calif.; John D. Cochran 3L, Pittsburgh, Pa.; John P. Corcoran, Jr. 3L, Rhinebeck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS GO TO EIGHTY TWO LAW STUDENTS | 11/16/1940 | See Source »

...Britons felt pity, too-for nice old Sir Reginald Hervey Hoare, Britain's Minister. A distant cousin of Sir Samuel Hoare, he used to be quite a figure of a man-tall, with a handsome white-haired head, careless in dress and indolent of speech, kindly, dry, hospitable. He was a great friend of Carol, and used to converse with the King in Rumanian with a splendid British accent. But his health had gone, his retirement was long overdue, and the driving out of Carol left him at 58 broken and bitter. Last week he scurried about trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN THEATRE: Instructors in the Balkans | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...curious confidant of the Queen was the febrile, effeminate Lord Hervey, whose microscopically detailed and exhaustingly brilliant Memoirs are one of Quennell's main sources. When Frederick Louis, the Prince of Wales, had a Hanoverian brawl with his father and mother, Hervey took pleasure in infuriating the Prince by composing long letters of wounded virtue to be copied and sent by the Prince's discarded mistress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Quennell's Queen | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

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