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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might have seen the Dream while going through the family papers of a certain Baron Jacques Le Vavasseur, Diderot's direct descendant. Apparently, Diderot's daughter had passed on a whole batch of papers to her descendants. The family had let only two untrained amateurs take a look: it thought the less said about Diderot's escapades and radical ideas the better. Dieckmann got only a curt refusal when he wrote the baron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dream Chaser | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...baron had lent them all to Dieckmann, and he had brought them home with him to St. Louis. All in all, to the tiny band of Diderot scholars it was the greatest discovery ever. It would mean a complete new look at the man Dieckmann holds was certainly "on a level with Voltaire, Rousseau and Montesquieu." For students of the 18th Century, Dieckmann's find was beaten only by one other: the discovery of the Boswell Malahide papers (TIME, Nov. 29), which had also turned up forgotten in an ancient castle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dream Chaser | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...Truex can dig a coy toe into the carpet with the best of the professional Milquetoasts; he can be equally amusing as a self-fancied Don Juan who struts only to trip. But here he is the victim of a greater incongruity-a script that manages to make sex look pretty stale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 3, 1949 | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

There was the time two nattily dressed fellows with cameras showed up early in the evening with a letter "written" and "signed" by President Conant authorizing them to look over Lamont. "I had to check with a half-dozen people before it was proved a fraud," Shean explained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Guard Staves Off Crashers | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...students that bothered Lamont's watchdog. A very distinguished professor, cane under his arm and camel's hair coat over a business suit, showed up at 11:30 one night. He explained that he was so busy in the day-time that he hadn't had a chance to look over the library until just then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Guard Staves Off Crashers | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

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