Word: pollock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...DEAN POLLOCK Milwaukie...
...Holmes-Pollock Letters ($7.50), the mellow, witty, 58-year correspondence between the late great U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and British Jurist Sir Frederick Pollock; which might just as well have been published any other year...
...Wash., Victor C. Vaughan 3d, of Richmond, Va., and Israel H. Scheinberg, of New York, N.Y.; Jeffrey Richardson fellowship to Eugene R. Sullivan, Assistant in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; George Cheyne Shattuck memorial fellowship to Walter E. Knox, of McCook, Nebr.; Charles Eliot Ware memorial fellowship to William F. Pollock, of Santa Monica, Calif.; John Ware memorial fellowship to Herbert R. Morgan, of Bell, Calif.; Abraham A. Watson scholarship to Stuart G. Quan, of Oakland, Calif.; Whitman fellowship to Henry S. Fuller, of Washington, D.C.; and Dr. William Hunter Workman scholarship to Ping-Yang Liu, Research Fellow in Bacteriology...
...Holmes wrote his last letter and last literary opinion to Pollock. Then to their 57-year-old correspondence he set this last line: "Is this enough of my gossip...
...greatness of letters is in the mind they reveal. Pollock's mind was keen, erudite, somewhat suspicious, drily humorous, shyly human. Holmes's mind had a larger quality. There is nothing like battle to mature the mind it does not destroy. The bullet that passed through Holmes's neck at Antietam lodged in his brain. He lived the rest of his life as if the words with which he closed his 90th birthday address were momently true: "Death plucks my ear and says Live-I am coming." He lived with the wise irreverence of a soldier...