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...Seymour Morris is "a beginner that's working very hard." Vic Pire at 137 should wrestle 130, but there is no one else at 137. At 147 Dave Stern is "inexperienced but willing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Freshman Wrestlers Plagued By Lack of Experience and Weight | 1/21/1965 | See Source »

...Oxford,* "snob" is not just another four-letter word but a way of being. Class, according to the despairing cry of Poet John Betjeman, is the primary English passion, one that has survived the welfare state and the shrunken horizons of em pire. The subject, class, and the scene, Oxford, form the substance of this depressing but enlightening fictional report on what might be called the Cold War Generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Class Report | 1/20/1961 | See Source »

...Louis University The Rev. Dominique Georges Pire, O.P. famed Belgian rescuer of displaced persons, Nobel Peace Prizewinner (1958) L.L.D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos, Jun. 13, 1960 | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).-A documentary drama, 35 Rue du Marche, recalls the devotion of a Belgian priest, Nobel Prizewinning Dominique Georges Henri Pire, to his self-imoosed task: providing homes for European D.P.s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: Time Listings, Nov. 2, 1959 | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

PRIX FÉMINA. Author Franchise Mallet-Joris deserved a prize, said the critics, but not for her prizewinning book, L'Em-pire Céleste, which they generally dismissed as "good, meaty, lending-library stuff." The story of a poor cafe pianist who realizes his mediocrity after friends read his diary, L'Empire seemed little more than mediocre itself. Critical consensus: had the elderly ladies of the Fémina jury been on their toes, they might have given Franchise the prize for her Illusionist (1951), the story of a young girl's love affair with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sex & Salvation | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

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