Word: nicholson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ARTHUR FREAS NICHOLSON...
...TIME wishes ex-Reader Nicholson well during his intellectual hibernation. It recommends that he also read Black Beauty, The Swiss Family Robinson, The Winning of Barbara Worth...
...Flying Gerardos (by Kenyon Nicholson & Charles Robinson, produced by Edward Choate) consists of amiable horseplay about -a crisis which strikes a trapeze act while they are quartered in a horse doctor's house during a Brooklyn carnival run. A spindly graduate student of Columbia University falls in love with the troupe's ingenue and she threatens to quit the act for culture and her bookworm, which would deprive the brainless aerialists of their most attractive piece of ignorance...
...ships. But the British, when they steamed triumphantly into Alexandria with their prisoners, admitted no losses in this first clear-cut victory over the Italian Navy. For this action, King George promptly made Captain John Collins of the Sydney a Companion of the Order of the Bath. Commander Hugh Nicholson, senior officer of the destroyer force, got a bar added...
...Unfortunately for the editor who counted Rear-Admiral Nicholson's stars, there were two on each shoulder...