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Alfred Jenkins Shriver was a precise Baltimore bachelor, an alumnus of Johns Hopkins. He stuttered terribly but never let that bother him. As a Maryland gourmet, he was famed for his perfect dinner parties. As a Maryland lawyer, he specialized in wills. Last September Alfred Shriver died, aged 72, leaving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Baltimore Beauties | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

To Johns Hopkins Alfred Shriver bequeathed $650,000 for a lecture hall. Its equipment is to be "the best obtainable in the world," its walls covered with murals painted by "the best available artists." What caused the greatest tongue-wagging in Baltimore since Wallis Warfield bagged a King-Emperor was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Baltimore Beauties | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

MISS SUSIE SLAGLE'S - Augusta Tucker - Harper ($2.50). A first novel of life among medical students at Johns Hopkins, 1912-1916, written with honest knowledge of the place and a brand of sentiment exactly suggestive of the time. Typical of Author Tucker's reverent gusto: a scene in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recent Books: FICTION | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

In Manhattan, World War Veteran Lewis H. Brown, president of Johns-Manville, accepted the Roll Call chairmanship.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Hungry and Naked | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Harvey Gushing, 70, world's No. 1 brain surgeon, author of Pulitzer-Prizewinning Life of Sir William Osler (1925), father-in-law of the President's eldest son, James Roosevelt; of a heart attack; in New Haven, Conn. Bright-eyed, white-haired Harvey Cushing's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 16, 1939 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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