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...rectory in Wantage, birthplace of Alfred the Great. There his busy wife Penelope (daughter of Field Marshal Lord Chetwode) hunts and fishes with Pam-like energy, keeps an eye on their son and daughter and runs a thriving tea shop called King Alfred's Kitchen. She puts up jam; he musingly produces about one poem every six weeks. "Almost any age seems civilized except that in which I live," he once wrote. "But it's wrong to think my verse ironical. I write of things I care about." In The Old Liberals he hauntingly evoked not only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Major Minor Poet | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...congressional opposition. The President in his budget message this week laid down the broad lines of the program. Chief recommendation: Congress should remove the present ceiling on the amount of private-home mortgages that FHA can insure. Although it shows a handsome profit, FHA last year twice had to jam on the brakes to seek more insurance authorization, now has a request for more money before Congress. In addition, the Administration wants Congress to wind up the Depression-born public-housing program, by 1963 to require cities and states to go halves (instead of one-third) on the land costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Switch at the Top | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

...second period began, with Guryshev scoring again at 0:16 on a screen shot from between the circles. A few minutes later, the Russian center picked up his third goal when, after Pratt had stopped his first shot from the right, he picked it up and fired through a jam-up in front of the goal to make the score...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Russian Sextet Defeats Crimson, 11-1 | 1/13/1959 | See Source »

Cordiner's carefully regulated, jam-packed life, relieved occasionally by golf (low 80s) or deep-sea fishing, is the product of a near obsession about time-the "fourth dimension in a corporation-beyond men, money and materials." When a G.E. executive recently suggested a 1963 deadline for a project, Cordiner asked for 1959. Says he: "That way we stand a good chance of getting it by 1961. Otherwise, we might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC ENERGY: The Powerhouse | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

Timex All-Star Jazz Show (CBS, 8-9 p.m.)." Just like the three previous all-star jam sessions. A real hep crew-Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Gene Krupa-blasting out cool tunes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jan. 12, 1959 | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

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