Word: jameses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A gaunt, wrinkled left-winger named James Imbrie, running for governor on the ticket of Henry Wallace's Progressive Party, decided to fight the law. Imbrie refused to take the oath, went to court to prevent the state from noting the fact on the ballot.
The ballroom guests were not alone in celebrating John Dewey's 90th birthday. Messages had poured in from all over the world-from President Harry Truman and Prime Minister Clement Attlee, from Pandit Nehru, Historian Arnold Toynbee, Harvard's President James B. Conant and from a hundred U.S...
Léger spent the war years in the U.S., admired "its vitality, its litter and its waste." Bad taste, Léger once remarked to Critic James Johnson Sweeney, "is also one of the valuable raw materials of the country. Bad taste, strong colors-it is all here for...
Last week Crime Collector Lowall got what he called a "dream assignment." Ep Hoyt moved in Oldtimer (59) James Hale as city editor and moved 44-year-old Gene Lowall over to the new, specially tailored job of national "crime editor." His roving commission: to go anywhere in the U.S...
James Curtis Hepburn of Milton, Pa. disappointed his parents by not becoming a minister. Instead, he studied medicine and got an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1836. But after three years of private practice, he decided to become a missionary. The Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions sent him...