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They are the uncompromising writers. As they grow up, they go on looking at people and things as they did when they were children, with a certain ulterior fixity of attention. The nervous and jovial object in the living room is Uncle Alfred, yes; but they cannot let it go at that; neither can they stop trying to define other things they see and feel. They are the writers who are born artists, and early in life this is apt to be a troublesome condition. It is a fact that they might write something exciting, one day to be regarded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Defining Uncle Alfred | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

...America's Edward Stettinius: the voice of a "jovial salesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: UNdistinguished Voices | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

Last week, a jovial 14-car motorcade, containing all but the U.S. and Egyptian delegates, and spearheaded by New York's handwringing, homburg-hatted Grover Whalen, set out for Long Island to seek another temporary home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Operation Whalen | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...Dickens looked back on the adversities of his childhood, he found them too painful to disclose even to his wife: not until he was almost 40 could he bear to relive them, and to cast them from him into David Copperfield. Father John Dickens, the original of Micawber-"a jovial opportunist . . . who borrowed from anyone foolish enough to make him cash advances"-took twelve-year-old Charles away from school, put him to work at a shilling a day in a blacking factory. Father and mother Dickens spent this period in a debtors' prison, where they were relatively comfortable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Englishman in Adversity | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...born in 1846, whose centenary was also celebrated last week. Kate Greenaway envied Caldecott's wit. Most illustrators were more inclined to envy Caldecott's sure sense of movement, which set a new standard for fast action on paper. His books (John Gilpin's Ride, Three Jovial Huntsmen, etc.) were as boyish and gay as Greenaway's were girlish and sweet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: New Country | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

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