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Bradley University Roy Edward Larsen, president, Time Inc Litt.D. in Journalism Charles Kettering, inventor Sc.D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The $1,000 Word | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

Citation: "Noted throughout his career for undertaking and solving problems deemed insolvable by many. . . " Chapman College Leslie LeRoy Irvin, inventor of the rip-cord-opened parachute LL.D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The $1,000 Word | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

Sanford L. Cluett, shirtmaker, inventor of Sanforizing Sc.D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos, Jun. 16, 1958 | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...world of saloons Dangerfield is a born chuckee-out. He is very strong. He is able to tear the legs off a chair one by one, and threaten and bully women, one by one. Like Dostoevsky's Shigalov, the inventor of "Shigalovism," he is a nihilist in action. His other activities include getting thrown out of the ladies' room of the U.S. embassy in a wild chase that bears a slight resemblance to poor Bloom's expulsion, "like a shot off a shovel" from Barney Kiernan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unblushing Bloom | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...spent 23 years in Florence, and wrote against debt like Dostoevsky. She had a desperate, long and painful affair with a romantic Italian who claimed to be the inventor of the first gasoline engine. She seems to have committed the one fatal mistake a woman can make with a man-she made him feel a fool. Came the day when her lover cut her dead in public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lady on a Plush Pegasus | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

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