Word: mason
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...professor, refreshed in spirit by 30 minutes at the piano and his Bach fugues, expertly curbed his dark blue Jaguar outside Mason Hall, on the University of Michigan campus. Inside, 20 undergraduate journalists had mustered for his course on editorial writing. Thus last week, after 43 years of newspapering, began a new career for Carl E. Lindstrom, 62, retired executive editor of the Hartford. Conn. Times (circ. 120,161), and a discerning lifelong critic of the U.S. press...
Other poetry in Identity includes work by Lowell Edmunds and Mason Harris. Both pieces are technically adequate, but somewhat pedestrian. An interesting and sober review of the recent Editor, by Aden Field, distinguished by its lavish use of such critical catch phrases as "human experience" rounds out the issue...
...James Mason and Margaret Leighton as a pair of lawyers in The Second Man, a superior Britannic whodunit...
...boss the Government's Housing and Home Finance Agency, President Eisenhower last week chose a man tailor-made for the job. He is Norman P. Mason, 62, head of the Federal Housing Administration and the Government's No. 2 housing man. As a replacement for Albert M. Cole, 57, who is resigning to take a big job with a Reynolds Metals Co. subsidiary, Administrator Mason moves into the top job with plenty of experience behind him. A onetime Chelmsford, Mass, lumber dealer, Mason went to the FHA in 1954 when it was reeling from the windfall profits scandals...
...position Mason also faces a tough job; he will have to try to push through the President's new housing program over heavy congressional opposition. The President in his budget message this week laid down the broad lines of the program. Chief recommendation: Congress should remove the present ceiling on the amount of private-home mortgages that FHA can insure. Although it shows a handsome profit, FHA last year twice had to jam on the brakes to seek more insurance authorization, now has a request for more money before Congress. In addition, the Administration wants Congress to wind...