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...other occupations of Msgr. Ronald Arbuthnott Knox during the past 30 years have earned him an international reputation as the urbane and witty chaplain-litterateur at Oxford's Trinity College, as the author of both brittle whodunits (The Body in the Silo) and brilliant essays in Roman Catholic theology, and as perhaps the ablest modern translator of the Bible. His new book, three decades in the making ("mastering my authorities in trains, or over solitary meals, taking notes on rough pieces of paper and losing them . . .") is titled Enthusiasm (Oxford; $6). In it, Author Knox brings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Enthusiasm | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

Veteran Stripper and sometime Litterateur Gypsy 'Rose Lee, currently touring the Midwest with her own girlie show in a carnival, discoursed on what it takes for success in stripteasing. "Brains! To go on year after year," said she, pointing to her forehead, "you got to have it up here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: That Old Feeling | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Died. Count Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, 86, Belgian Nobel Prizewinning (1911) litterateur, best-known for his allegorical fantasy, The Blue Bird (1909); of a heart attack; in Nice, France (see INTERNATIONAL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 16, 1949 | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Died. Charles Hanson Towne, 72, litterateur, minor poet (Manhattan) and editor (the old Smart Set, McClure's, Harper's Bazaar); after long illness; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 14, 1949 | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...Another litterateur, Mae West, was sued for $100,000 by two writers who claimed that she swiped their stuff for her play, Catherine Was Great. Unruffled, Mae was putting on a good act in court, with the prosecution lawyers as her straight men. What was her first literary effort? "Sex," she said, deadpan. Why couldn't she remember the sequence of Catherine's 300 lovers? "I can't remember the order. No woman could." Well, why didn't she put all the lovers in the play? "Look," she replied, "I did the best I could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 6, 1948 | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

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