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William Hawthorne, the Professor of Engineering of Cambridge University, will visit in January. Nadia Boulanger, Paris music instructor; Marion Moore, poetess; Joan Bennet, literary critic, and H.S. Bennett, medieval historian, will reside in Adams in the spring...
When he left Peking in June, Mao went first to Shanghai, a city he detests, to hear Shanghai's scientists, educators, writers and businessmen air their protests. The counter-rectification campaign had become so virulent that old favorites of Mao like Poetess Ting Ling (TIME, Aug. 19) have been threatened with expulsion from the party. Moscow-trained Party Theoretician Liu Shao-chi, often regarded as No. 2 man in the hierarchy of Chinese Communism, was reportedly opposed to Mao's doctrine of letting all flowers bloom when it was first enunciated last year; so, apparently, was Premier Chou...
Since Miss Moore refused to consider money "in advance of performance," Wallace agreed to honor "your wish for a fancy unencumbered," sent sketches of the dream car to give the poetess inspiration. After looking at them, Miss Moore replied: "I am by no means sure that I can help you to the right thing, but performance with elegance casts a spell. Let me do some thinking in the direction of impeccable, symmechromatic, thunder-blender . . . (The exotics, if I can shape them a little.) Dearborn might come into one ... I thank you for realizing that under contract esprit could not flower...
Andante con Moto. After that, Poetess Moore really began producing. Samples: "Mongoose Civique, Thunder Crester, Dearborn Diamante, Magigravure, Pastelogram, Regina-rex, Taper Racer, Varsity Stroke, Astranaut, Chaparral, Tir à l'arc (bull's-eye), Triskelion (three legs running), Pluma Piluma (hairfine, feather-foot), Andante con Moto (description of a good motor?)." Wrote she on Dec. 8, 1955. "May I submit UTOPIAN TURTLE-TOP? Do not trouble to answer unless you like it." Wired back Wallace happily on Dec. 23 (not forgetting to send two dozen roses): "MERRY CHRISTMAS TO OUR FAVORITE TURTLETOPPER...
...next eleven months Miss Moore heard nothing more. Then, on Nov. 8, 1956, Wallace dropped Poetess Moore a short note: "We have chosen a name out of the more than 6,000-odd candidates that we gathered. It fails somewhat of the resonance, gaiety and zest we were seeking. But it has a personal dignity and meaning to many of us here. Our name, dear Miss Moore, is-Edsel...