Word: judson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suggest that Horace Judson relinquish his job with TIME to take a professorship in English, teaching the honors program. His keen insight as a critic of Faulkner resulted in one of the best estimates of that writer I've ever read. It is a masterpiece...
...TIME'S judgment that he was the "central figure" in Southern literary life. Reaching back to that point and beyond, the raw material for this week's Faulkner story was considerably different from that for most cover stories. Although Senior Editor A. T. Baker, Writer Horace Judson and Researcher Martha McDowell had at hand some 70 pages of current reporting from TIME correspondents covering the civil rights front and a wealth of other background from TIME'S library, the bulk of their material came from Faulkner's writings. In ten days of preparing for the story...
...Judson is especially equipped for an assignment that calls for such concentrated reading. A native New Yorker who graduated from the University of Chicago (A.B.) at 17, Judson at 21 wrote The Techniques of Reading, a widely used textbook for college freshmen who want to learn how to read faster and with more comprehension. A onetime bureaucrat (as a civilian employee of the U.S. military in Berlin), reading teacher, book manuscript editor, advertising copywriter and account executive, Judson is now a mainstay of TIME'S BOOKS staff. As might be expected, he reads faster than most people...
...Sizer is appointed, he will be the first person to hold the position permanently since Francis Keppel '38 resigned to become United States Commissioner of Education in November, 1962. President Pusey has been acting Dean since last June, when Judson T. Shaplin, then the acting Dean, left Harvard for Washington University...
...phone calls to such executives as A. T. & T. Chairman Frederick R. Kappel and New York Stock Exchange President Keith Funston, Johnson has appeared a friendly, conservative Chief Executive who understands business. It is not unusual to hear from businessmen comments such as those of Borg-Warner Vice President Judson Sayre: "You get sold on Johnson. If he conducts himself with not too many blunders between now and November, I'd vote for him -and I've never voted for a Democrat in my life...