Word: jeanes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Toronto, made a quick reply: "A contemptible lie." McCarthy, he said, apparently was stung by an anti-McCarthy ad in the Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune (circ. 7,952), signed by a group of citizens including Nash's sister, Jean...
Also at Radcliffe, one of the off-campus houses, Everett, will get a new head resident this term. Miss Gloria Burns is replacing Miss Jean Anderson, who has retired from the position...
Each year the French award all manner of writing prizes, but they give none for pure precocity. If they did, the 1950 prize would certainly have gone to a 19-year-old boy from Marseilles named Jean-Baptiste Rossi. In that year, he published a novel he had written at the age of 16 which most parents of 16-year-olds would scarcely want their children to read: the story of a love affair between a teen-age boy and a Roman Catholic nun. What startled critics almost as much as the subject was the youngster's writing ability...
When the book was published in England as The False Start, the critics dusted off some of their most generous phrases. The New Statesman and Nation called it a "limpid and exquisite love story"; The Recorder suggested that young Rossi might grow up to become "another Flaubert." Young Jean's little novel has now been published in the U.S. under the title Awakening, and, while it seems to have been a bit overrated, it is at least a remarkable book for a teen-age author...
Graduates Carl Knobloch (saber) and Jean Beauvois (epee) also won all of their engagements. Knobloch was an All-American intercollegiate saber man for Yale last year...