Word: houghtons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cocktail Hour" & Anagrams. Dr. Stuart was cooped up for 39 months with two others, in three dimly lit rooms in the back of a British mercantile establishment in Peiping. His fellow prisoners: Dr. Henry S. Houghton, 66, director of Peiping Union Medical College, and Trevor Bowen, 59, its comptroller...
Bowen breakfasted at 7, Houghton and Stuart at 9. Stuart spent the forenoon writing on his pet subject: New Testament criticism. At lunch all three took turns reading aloud the German war communiques from the English edition of Osaka Mainichi. High point of the day was "cocktail hour," when the three met to re-chew the morsels of news they had read at lunch. Every night Houghton and Stuart played anagrams-altogether 1,500 games. (Dr. Houghton wrote a book on anagrams which should be the definitive work...
...palmists and swamis who hung out shingles. Sometimes she took a friend along as "patient," sometimes she described a neurotic husband (actually she is a widow) or a hypothetical maladjusted, discharged veteran called Junior. What she found out is described in her book Where Do People Take Their Troubles? (Houghton, Mifflin...
...Paris, this time as editor of the Paris Post, the New York Post's Paris sister. He had found it quite necessary to write about European politics; and by this time everyone took the necessity for granted. In the U.S., his curiously titled autobiography, The House of Europe (Houghton, Mifflin; $3.75), had just appeared...
...MATERIAL-Oliver La Farge- Houghton Mifflin ($3). "Bumwad Inky," mused the Second Form bully, his eye alight with sudden inspiration as he watched his gawky, bespectacled classmate unpacking, "Bumwad Inky in his bumwad suit...