Word: ithe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political prodigy. "His idea of a game," recalls J.R., still alive and alert at 83, "was to get a box to stand on and make a speech." With a lisp caused by two widely separated front teeth, Billy Knowland would get up on his box and proclaim: "Wepwethentative government ith the way we do thingth in thith country." The inscription on his grammar-school graduation program read: "Appearance-politician. Besetting sin-politics." At twelve he spoke for the Harding-Coolidge ticket. He thrilled to the drama of his first national convention in 1924, returned to take over the chairmanship, from...
...censors to put all films into one of four categories: 1) "For the whole family"; 2) "A little less than entirely suitable"; 3) "For adults only''; 4) "To be shown under very restricted conditions." Classification, agreed Director George (Shane) Stevens, "would serve a wider audience w^ith greater definition . . . It's the British way. This should be the American way." Snorted Director William (Roman Holiday) Wyler: "We can't be guardians of children ... It is up to the parents . . . Personally, I think censor boards ought to go out of business. That's what the Supreme...
...worth the price of a cable toll knows that, in moving to a new post, he will inherit a desk calendar covered with mysterious scrawls, address books with unidentified phone numbers, a bewildering assortment of old news clippings, and a series of phone calls meant for his predecessor. W ith perseverance, he usually succeeds in living down the ghost of his forerunner. But Cranston Jones, who recently became TIME'S correspondent in Rio de Janeiro, thinks he will always be haunted by a triple-decker ghost named White...
...mature author would do with the theme of The Young Visiters (Balzac rigged a great part of his Human Comedy round precisely such characters as Ethel Monticue and Mr. Salteena). But it is certain that no adult, whether a Balzac or a Barrie, could have turned out a work ith the unique perfections of The Young Visiters...
...Cheers. What sort of teacher do students remember? "They always recall the ill-tempered and eccentric [ones]-Miss Crab, who hit them with the pointer, and Mr. Fizz, who blew bubbles." The'y also remember such teachers as Harvard's George Lyman Kittredge, who lectured w'ith such ferocity that he. once tumbled-off his platform, or such men as History Professor Woodrow Wilson of Princeton who spoke with such clarity and conviction that his students would burst into cheers. "But next to those," says Gilbert Highet, "they remember the teachers who made them remember...