Word: llewelyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most polemical essay of the five, "Religion in Harvard" by Llewelyn Thomas derides "the neo-fascism . . . appearing everywhere on the American scene," the "capitalistic-based administrators" who run the University, Christian choir-singers who sell out on their faith for two bucks a throw, and concludes with an affirmation that "the number of blobs at Harvard is infinite." No doubt this will prompt at least one 'Cliffie to prod her roommate with "See, I told you, we should have gone to Ohio State where men are really...
Also in the magazine will be an article on "Religion at Harvard," by Llewelyn E. Thomas '61, son of Dylan Thomas, a discussion of "Fat Professors"--Mentally Fat Ones--by Paul H. Riesman '60, and an analysis of Harvard apathy by Brian R. Featherstone...
...predicted that popular practitioner in purple prose, United Mine Workers President John Llewelyn Lewis, when his brain child was born eleven years ago. Last week the U.M.W.'s employer-financed Welfare and Retirement Fund mailed out its slick-paper annual report, bound in a red velvetlike cover, and the statistics in it were nearly as impressive as old John L.'s prose. In the fiscal year that ended June 30, the fund took in $157 million (its best year, largely because of increased soft-coal production), laid out $138 million in $100-a-month pensions, medical benefits...
Thus in Frederic Wakeman's novel The Hucksters, Soap Tycoon Evan Llewelyn Evans boomed out advice to a deferential huddle of ad-agency men. Last week Veteran Adman Emerson Foote, 50, a prototype for one of the leading characters in Wakeman's fiction, took the advice in real life, chin-chinned with himself and with his associates and spun the compass. He thereupon quit as executive vice president of McCann-Erickson, world's second largest ad agency (after J. Walter Thompson), surrendering a salary "well up in six figures." Said he: "Last year I flew...