Word: mason
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ruth Benedict, Yale's Edward Sapir, Northwestern's Melville Jean Herskovits, the late Elsie Clews Parsons, University of Cali fornia's Alfred L. Kroeber, Harvard's Alfred Marston Tozzer, University of New Mexico's Leslie Spier, University of Pennsylvania's John Alden Mason...
Died. Albert Kahn, 73, world's No. 1 industrial architect, "father of modern factory design"; in Detroit. Son of an impoverished rabbi, he immigrated from Germany with his family when he was 12, worked for Detroit Architect George D. Mason for 14 years, opened his own office when he was 26. He and the automotive industry's mass production grew together and Kahn's factory designs-"all-under-one-roof," later "all-on-one-floor"-became part & parcel of developing U.S. production; industry's demands for his services made Kahn a mass-producer himself. Ultimately...
During the year: > Many writers, some despairing of interpreting war during a war, found themselves in uniform. Among them: Novelists James Gould Cozzens, Julian Green, Dashiell Hammett, Eric Knight, F. Van Wyck Mason; Playwrights Sidney Kingsley, Thornton Wilder, Laurence Stallings, William Saroyan; Poets Christopher La Farge, Karl Jay Shapiro, Harry Brown; ex-New Yorkers John Cheever, Geoffrey Hellman, Edward Newhouse; Autobiographer Vincent Sheean; Historian Samuel Eliot Morison; Newshawks Jimmy Cannon, Marion Hargrove, Hartzell Spence...
...always this way. With the talent of Eugene O'Neill, Robert Sherwood, S. N. Behrman, Philip Barry, Sidney Howard, Thomas Wolfe, John Mason Brown, and John Dos Passos, Baker was able to blaze a spectacular trail. These names above are no dead listing of the college's contribution to a forgotten art. They signify the great effort that was expended, and then was suddenly curtailed...
HARVARD M.I.T. Loring, lw lw, White Beebe, c c, Merrow W. Harding, rw rw, Seifert Paine (Capt.), ld ld, Kaneb (Capt.) Mechem, rd rd, Burdakin G. Harding, g g, Mason...