Word: niven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...questions. That makes, uh, 2,400 questions." Said they to him, "When are you coming back?" He snapped, "No questions, I said." He declared he would not consider going into any business until he returns from Europe, refreshed and mentally regarnished by a Continental tramp with Novelist Thornton Niven Wilder...
Married. Sonia Alexandra Frey, daughter of John Alexander Frey, Director of the Baptist Theological Seminary of Riga, Latvia, to Niven Busch, Jr., onetime associate editor of TIME, in Manhattan...
Novel, Thornton Niven Wilder, for his Bridge of San Luis Rey (TIME...
...Thornton Niven Wilder, an instructor at Lawrenceville School & author of The Bridge of San Luis Rey, a best-selling book about people in Peru, and a book of which first edition copies have sold at $50, was interviewed by a young reporter. He said: ". . . Collecting first editions is not a good habit to get into. It is a minor indication of an age that is losing the essential approach to books. ... I have never set foot in Peru...
TIME, The Weekly News-Magazine. Editors?Briton Hadden and Henry R. Luce. Associates?Manfred Gottfried (National Affairs), John S.Martin, Thomas J. C. Martyn (Foreign News), Jack A. Thomas (Books). Weekly Contributors?John Farrar, Willard T. Ingalls, Alexander Kleamun, Peter Mathews, Wells Root, Preston Lockwood, Niven Busch. Published by TIME, Inc., H. R. Luce, Pres.; I. S. Martin, Vice-Pres. ; B. Hadden, Secy-Treas.; 236 E. 39th St., New York City. Subscription rate, one year, postpaid: In the United States and Mexico. $5.00; in Canada, $5.50; elsewhere, $6.00. For advertising rates address: Robert L. Johnson, Advertising Manager, TIME, 236 E. 39th...