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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mason Hammond will be on leave next year; William C. Greene and Arthur Darby Nock will be away in the spring; Herbert Bloch will be back after a year's absence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Classics | 4/21/1951 | See Source »

...ranks, the department includes such nationally respected economists as Leontief, Hansen, Williams, Slichter, Harris, Dunlop, Mason, Black, and Galbraith; the only trouble is that undergraduates don't always have a chance to meet them. However, several younger men in ther field, including Duceenberry Goodwin, and Kaysen, have drawn praise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Economics | 4/21/1951 | See Source »

...report, written by a seven man committee headed by David Bowen '51, comes after two months of investigation by the group-investigation which involved such alumni as Robert E. Sherwood '17, Donald Oenslager '23, Robert Edmond Jones '10, John Mason Brown '23, and Harry T. Levin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Group Will Ask Center for Public Arts | 4/17/1951 | See Source »

Barrel A-Rolling. The shotgun wedding of history and sex has produced enough incongruities in U.S. fiction to fill a literary museum of horrors. This one comes from Proud New Flags, the latest historical novel by F. (for Francis) van Wyck Mason.* His tetralogy on the Revolutionary War at sea has sold over 1,000,000 copies in all editions. With his new tetralogy on the Civil War at sea, Mason ought to do as well or better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pippins & Sea Power | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

...Mason's novels are wonderful fun to read, despite a disinterest in the fine points of human character, and even despite his high-spirited approach to the English language-which he seems to regard as a lariat for the roping of great strong verbs, soft lovely nouns, and even helpless little prepositions. Nevertheless, Author Mason can keep a story rolling like a navvy with a barrel, and that one perilous, amazing skill makes it hard to ignore what's happening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pippins & Sea Power | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

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