Word: personal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democratic Club, formed last month, now has 30 members, and the Constitution, which must still got Faculty approval, provides that any additional person in the University may join, provided that he "rejects any form of totalitarian doctrine, including fascism and communism...
...most important person in any picture," Edouard Manet once remarked, "is the light." Manet's painted light illumined a Manhattan gallery last week-and also lit up some of his borrowings. It was the largest collection of Manet's works (88 in all) Manhattan had ever seen...
TIME has stressed its interest in people by putting a picture of a person on almost every one of its 1,360 covers. Some exceptions: Cartographer Bob Chapin's maps of Paris (Sept. 4, 1944) and Jerusalem (Aug. 26, 1946), Japan's setting sun (Aug. 20, 1945). TIME covers are a special responsibility of Assistant Managing Editor Dana Tasker. He presides at weekly cover conferences at which editors pick cover subjects, sometimes weeks, sometimes months in advance. Then he and one of the three cover artists-Ernest Hamlin Baker, Boris Artzybasheff and Boris Chaliapin-decide on the symbolism...
...customary to say that Niebuhr's books are hard reading. But any person of average patience can find out what he is saying in The Nature and Destiny...
Almost his only confidant was a boy named Harry de Forest Smith, whose mind was also stuffed with echoes of books. Robinson once said that Smith was one person to whom he could "take his soul." While Smith was away at school, in 1890, the two boys began a regular correspondence that lasted until 1900 and briefly flared again...