Word: hydes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Douglas A. Hyde always wanted to be a missionary. He was a Methodist, "but at 17, he joined Britain's Communist Party, and became a missionary for Marxism instead. "Everyone worked together and thought alike," said he, "which was the great attraction." That...
...following in the steps of Louis Budenz, who had quit as managing editor of New York's Daily Worker (TIME, Oct. 22, 1945) to rejoin the Roman Catholic Church, Convert Hyde took along his two children. His wife, a Communist for ten years, also quit the party. Said Hyde: "It became obvious to me that the movement for which I had fought and worked so long was destroying those very freedoms and decencies for which it claimed to be fighting. . . . Communism was incapable of providing a cure for an extremely sick world. My growing disillusionment led me to seek...
Cornell University was all set to give a birthday party. Banquets and speeches were all arranged; many of the guests had been invited up to Ithaca. But everything had to be postponed: the birthday boy was nowhere around. Liberty Hyde Bailey, when last heard from, was somewhere in the West Indies, wandering through jungles in search of rare plants and palms. And not even his goth birthday would bring him back from such an expedition...
Marauding Bears. Liberty Hyde Bailey, born during the Buchanan administration, was raised in the Michigan wilderness, on a farm his father hacked out of the forest. His family fought off marauding bears, learned to weave their own cloth, make their own soap and candles, tan their own leather, grow or hunt their own food. The elder Bailey was a Puritan, who liked being 52 miles from a postoffice (mail once a week, he thought, was quite enough), and had to approve every book young Lib read, except Pilgrim's Progress and the Bible. Once Lib brought home The Origin...
...Class of '51, are: J. David Baumann, William C. Becker, Edmund J. Blake, Jr., Charles D. Bottenfield, David A. Brockway, Alexander J. Calla, Frederick R. Coburn, James N. Douglass, Robert A. Feldman, Frederick M. Fialkow, Roy M. Goodman, William G. B. Graham, John T. Hazel, Arthur Dwight Hyde, Jr., George D. Jackson, Edward R. Kane, Kenneth Keniston, V. Bruce LaSala, William van H. Mason, David G. Nathan, A. Werner Pleus, Roger V. Pugh, Jr., John P. Rice, Jr., Henry M. Silviera, Jr., John Talbot, Jr., Robert E. Tomasello, B. David Waring, and Jeffrey Watkins...