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...muffle the din of the Thermo-Nuclear Age, some British authors in the last 16 months have pulled the blanket of history over their heads and burrowed in the warm, dark bed of the past. H.F.M. Prescott's The Man on a Donkey was a skillfully done period piece about England under Henry VIII. In The Golden Hand, Edith Simon told a leisurely tale about an English cathedral town and the faith that sustained it (14th century). In The Little Emperors, Alfred Duggan made diverting entertainment out of the fall of the Roman Empire in Britain (sth century...
...leading political candidate is Connecticut's ex-U.S. Senator John A. Danaher, 54, a onetime Taftman, who campaigned last year for Eisenhower. Danaher has the backing of Connecticut's Senators Prescott Bush and William Purtell. Danaher's legal background: left Yale Law School in his final year, took his bar exams after clerking in a lawyer's office; now has a substantial practice in Washington, where he mingles law with lobbying. The other candidate is Connecticut's senior U.S. District Judge Carroll C. Hincks, 63, Republican and Yale Law graduate ('14), appointed...
...Producer Leland Hayward is devoting his considerable energies to the Lindsay & Crouse drama, The Prescott Proposals, starring Katharine Cornell and telling of the tribulations of a U.S. woman delegate to the United Nations...
About a month ago a small green love-bird departed from its cage in a Prescott Street apartment and set our to explore the neighborhood. With the anxiety of an expectant father, Roman Jakobson, Samuel Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and owner of the bird, stayed up all night waiting for her return. The next morning she wandered in blissfully and Jakobson, with mild censure, returned her to the wire, webbed cage. Such concern is not rare in Jakobson. Those who know him say that he is a devoted man-attached to his studies, to his friends...
...Cambridge, Jakobson and his wife have settled in an apartment on Prescott Street. Typical of a scholar's living quarters, the flat's living room is dominated by a massive desk littered with papers. Books scattered through the room are beginnings to collect under the windows. At night, all the local Slavic students trickle into the apartment for little chats with Jakobson; they stop in with a question, to solicit encouragement, or to draw Jakobson into an illuminating discussion. Employing his unbelievable energy even in conversation, he gesticulates constantly, emphasizing his remarks with a stab of his hand...