Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oxford, Ohio) for being mother of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's President Karl Taylor Compton, Nobel Prizeman Arthur Holly Compton of Chicago and Economist Wilson Martindale Compton; Dr. Roberts Andrews Millikan (cosmic ray opponent of Arthur Holly Compton), by the Outstanding Service medal of the Roosevelt Memorial Association; Journalist Walter Lippmann, by appointment as Chancellor of Union College (Schenectady, N. Y.); Author Stephen Vincent Benét, by $500 first prize in the O. Henry Memorial Prize for a story, "An End to Dreams''; Social Worker Jane Addams (Chicago's Hull House...
Lawrence himself, says friendly Editor Aldous Huxley, cared nothing for even literary immortality. Though he was no journalist, he wrote out of an immediate need for what he felt should be an immediate audience. "It was characteristic of him that he hardly ever corrected or patched what he had written. ... If he was dissatisfied ... he rewrote." Consequently his letters read more naturally than most authors'. In this 893-page collection, from which letters to Mabel Dodge Luhan (Lorenzo in Taos) are notably absent, you may follow his eleven-year hegira over Europe, Australia, the U. S., trace the progress...
...What I was really talking about, of course, was the absurdity of regarding any man as educated who does not understand both that religion, like science and art, is a racially valid technic for the discovery of truth, and also something of what that technic involves. Even an undergraduate journalist ought, it seems to me, to have been able to see that the two contentions are quite distinct...
Mark Sullivan, good Hoover friend and Republican journalist for the arch- Republican New York Herald Tribune, not only announced the end of Depression but said that Recovery was reaching its "second stage." "The first stage is the recovery from extreme depression and panic. . . . The panic conditions are completely over and will not return. . . . Ogden Mills, Secretary of the Treasury, estimates July 27 as about the date that marked the ending of that final phase of the depression. . . . There is now practically no one in any area of serious thought who doubts that the depression is ended. . . . Practically no one doubts...
...readableness of England's Bertrand Russell and John William Navin Sullivan. Laymen curious about what science is up to can turn with reasonable hopefulness to Russell's The A B C of Atoms, Sullivan's Three Men Discuss Relativity. In this brief (220-page), disarming autobiography, Journalist Sullivan, calling himself Julian Shaughnessy, explains about himself with the same simple sincerity he uses to explain Bach or Bohr. Realistic, humble, Sullivan calls popular works on science "one of the most unprofitable of all forms of reading," admits ''it seems that I am a man without...