Word: mentor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the best accounts ever written is Steven Runciman's History of the Crusades, now brought to authoritative completion with the third volume, The Kingdom of Acre. Historian Runciman writes in the magistral tradition of Gibbon, Macaulay and his mentor, G. M. Trevelyan. The first two volumes (TIME, Dec. i, 1952) told how the half-civilized Prankish warriors, massacring Saracens on the walls of Jerusalem and Tyre, won dazzling triumphs and founded a kingdom in the Holy Land. The concluding volume relates the somber story of how the warrior pilgrims, having lost the Holy City while squabbling over lands...
...couldn't comment until I see the article," the Crimson mentor stated, referring to a Boston Post account of "unprintable messages" sent to his family...
...five transport planes sent by Juan Peron had cleared the Argentine embassy of its 120 refugees, among them Carlos Manuel Pellecer, who under Arbenz had captured the land-reform program for the Communists, and Victor Manuel Gutierrez, who had captured labor. Together with Jose Manuel Fortuny, Arbenz' own mentor in Marxism, who went to Mexico in the Arbenz plane, the Communists are expected to meet soon in Prague, where explanations presumably will be in order...
Rebel Rose, by Ishbel Ross (Harper; $4), tells the fascinating story of Rose O'Neal Greenhow, a Maryland beauty whose charm helped her into highest Washington society, and whose Dixie devotion landed her in jail as a Confederate spy. Her political mentor was Calhoun. "Wild Rose" picked up such valuable information that President Jefferson Davis and General Robert E. Lee expressed their thanks to her. But Allan Pinkerton, head of the Chicago detective agency, finally caught her with some elementary spy work of his own (he peered through a window of her Washington home, saw a Union officer hand...
Last week the ape "man's indefatigable mentor, Producer Sol Lesser, announced that he had signed a new Tarzan. The find: Gordon Scott, 26, a lifeguard at Las Vegas' Sahara Hotel. His qualifications: 6 ft. 3 in., 215 lbs., a So-in. chest, a 30-in. waist and a catlike walk...