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...Viking church tower or only the ruins of a windmill built by Governor Benedict Arnold (great-grandfather of Traitor Arnold) of the Rhode Island colony. Down-to-earth archeologists side with James Fenimore Cooper who (in The Red Rover) called it a windmill. The romantic school inclines to Longfellow, whose The Skeleton in Armor refers to the "lofty tower" built by a far-flung Norseman for his "lady's bower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers, Aug. 16, 1948 | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...much of an innovation for Hoboken. Last week, Erwin B. Hock, New Jersey Beverage Control Commissioner, ruled that Radigan was licensed to run a corner pothouse, not a nursery. State law forbids the presence of minors in a barroom. Furthermore, said Hock piously, "Longfellow would turn over in his grave if he knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Pub Crawlers | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

...lady reformers whose figures Henry James was later aspishly to describe as having "no more outline than a bundle of hay." But in the midst of all this intellectual mooning there was great and solid achievement; this was the New England of Emerson and Hawthorne, of Thoreau, Lowell and Longfellow-the golden age of American letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From Hell to Gout | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...Jacques Rousseau was top man at one of the richest autograph auctions in Paris history. A Rousseau manuscript fetched 4,230,000 francs. A batch of letters from Voltaire brought 330,000; one letter from Beethoven, 116,000; one from Descartes, 48,000. For a letter from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with a bit of verse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Quiet, Please | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

Currently, under the traditional system, 'Cliffedwellers can move freely in and out of both exam room and Longfellow Hall, site of Annex finals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sherman Claims Exam System at Annex 'Awkward' | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

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