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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reassurance from Maynard. The growing boy never knew what strange world he would be living in next. One day he would find himself "turned loose into . . . the anthropological galleries" of the great museum. Another day, on a trip to Russia, he would be riding a pony furiously over the steppes. It is no wonder that, at the age of 18. he planned (and might as well have pulled off) the rescue from Brixton Prison of his friend Vinayak Savarkar, who today leads India's "extreme religious Nationalists-the Hindu Mahasabha" (Papa Garnett retrieved his son before the scheme could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Portrait of a Generation | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

...like detonations from another planet. So inbred was their sense of imperturbable peace that, when World War I broke out, none suspected that it was sounding the knell of the golden echo. Indeed, Author Garnett; fussing with his fungi, saw no need to join the army. His friend John Maynard Keynes (who grew up to be the great economist) had assured him "that the war could not last much more than a year." Author Garnett closes his book with the dry words: "It was a great relief for us all to have Maynard's assurance on this point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Portrait of a Generation | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

...probable singles lineup for the Crimson, in the 15-point match will be Ham Gravem, Brooks Harris, Captain John Rauh, Alex Haegler, Gene Mann, Donn Spencer, Don Bossart, Conrad Fischer, Herb Stone, and Maynard Canfield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Tennis Team Plays Host Tomorrow To Strong Princeton | 5/21/1954 | See Source »

...Crimson victories were provided by Conrad Fischer, Horb Stone, and Maynard Canfield in the eight, ninth, and tenth singles and by the Terry King-Stone and Gene-Mann-Fischer combinations in the fourth and fifth doubles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elis Defeat Tennis Varsity; Yard Squad Beats Yale, 5-4 | 5/13/1954 | See Source »

Mann and Conrad Fischer won the first doubles, but the Dan Mayers-Maynard Canfield and Frank Goodman-Doug Manchester combinations went down to three-set defeats in the second and third...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Tennis Team Defeats Columbia 7-2, Opposes Brown Today | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

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