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Word: mccosmic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aimed at him-that he possessed "the greatest mind of the 14th Century" - did Bertie, as well as Dante, a disservice.* So have the oversimplified pictures of McCormick as a feudal lord of the manor, aping the English aristocrats he professes to detest; as a fascist menace; as "Col. McCosmic," the frustrated military strategist; as a crackpot Midas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Colonel's Century | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

Author McCormick believes he has repaired his academic deficiency by reading "many, many books" in his post-college years. In 50 McCosmic pages which the publisher recommends in the cover blurb as "powerful, closely-reasoned . . .sound in scholarship, plenary in concept and exhaustively documented," Colonel McCormick sets forth some of his self-taught discoveries and conclusions. Samples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Self-taught Historian | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

...foreign staff, resigned. Into his job stepped Editor Paul Scott Mowrer. Other able craftsmen remained, among them Lloyd Downs Lewis, managing editor, drama critic and biographer; sage, literary Howard Vincent O'Brien, editorial page columnist; Cartoonists Vaughn Shoemaker and Cecil Jensen, creator of "Colonel McCosmic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Knight to Chicago | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

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