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...Milton E. Pharr was found by Nessfeness in a segregated high school in Gastonia, N.C., where his father is a janitor, his mother a cleaning woman. After a poor start at DePauw University (one B, two Ds, an F), Milton raised his marks to four As, a B, a C, made the varsity baseball team and became president of the literary magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Hidden Ones | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...LIFE OF WILKIE COLLINS (360 pp.) Nuel Pharr Davis-University of Illinois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Weird Wilkie | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

...century, Collins was a minor Victorian, but in the sense that Marlowe is a minor Elizabethan alongside Shakespeare. He was the best of the secondbest, and his growing status as "must" reading for highbrow novelists has been signalized by a T. S. Eliot essay. This biography by Nuel Pharr Davis, a University of Illinois English instructor, is intellectually skimpy, but as a personal history of Collins it is thorough, which may be just as well: Collins' life was no less intriguing than his books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Weird Wilkie | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

Lineage. In Chicago, charged with draft-dodging, James Pharr, 25, failed to make his point and drew a five-year sentence after telling the court that he was exempt from service because he was related to the Neanderthal man, was therefore an alien "Asiatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 29, 1953 | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

...Pharr, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 29, 1952 | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

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