Word: macauley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Human Comedy is the story of a happy family in a small town in wartime. It is William Saroyan saying that life is not only worth living, fighting and dying for, but can be an almost unmitigated pleasure. As Mrs. Macauley tells her son Homer, if the world seems to a man "richly sad and full of beauty, it's the man himself so, and not the things around him. And so it is, if it's bad, or ugly, or pathetic -it is always the man himself, and each man is the world...
CAPTAIN EWARD MACAULEY U.S.N...
...Captain Macauley has no greater admiration than TIME for the courage of those who nowadays set out to serve their country in the Merchant Marine. Their dangers and their hardships are all the more notable because largely unsung. The fact that (begging the Captain's pardon) the trainees do jokingly greet one another as "slacker," "sucker" and "profiteer" is, so far as TIME is concerned, not evidence of their seeking a refuge from danger but of their good tough morale. In so far as the story in question gave any other impression, it was a very bad story indeed...
Then Painter Carroll's diaphanous women began to catch on. In 1930, John Carroll was named head of the painting department of Detroit's Arts & Crafts Society, where, lavishly paid by Patrons Edsel Ford and Alvan Macauley, he began to teach a worshipful flock of younger artists...
Meanwhile, the Commission has plenty of other things to do. No. 2 man of the Commission, hulking Captain Howard LeRoy Vickery (on leave from the Navy), Jerry Land's right-hand man, is in charge of ship construction. Captain Edward J. Macauley (who replaces Lawyer Max O'Rell Truitt on April 1) is a specialist on ship design, will be assigned accordingly. Bushy-browed, big-nosed Thomas Mullen Woodward, Philadelphia lawyer, does the Commission's legal jobs, is charged with enforcement of control of foreign commerce. Ruddy, white-haired ex-Congressman John J. Dempsey handles the Commission...