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...wrote with wires across the page to guide his hand, an average of six lines a day. When he went to France for treatment, physicians warned him that he would go insane if he continued to write. His wife and son died. He envied his fellow historian, William Prescott (also half blind), because Prescott, "confound him," could read his proofs, "but I am no better off than an owl in the twilight." At 42, Parkman began writing France and England in North America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Epic Labors | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...legitimate HTW ticket sellers are: Jane Prescott '51 in Barnard Hall; Ellen Bowen '50 Briggs Hall; Carol Cohen '49, Cabot; Charlotte Butler '49, Whitman; Ann Haft '49, Eliot; Nancy Monroe '52, Bertram; and Cynthia Baker '49, off-campus houses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wednesday is Cliffe Evening for 'Troilus' | 12/9/1948 | See Source »

...Jennings Perry could point with pride to an almost-right October column titled "It's Closer Than You Think." In the small Garden City (Kans.) Telegram (circ. 5,238), Columnist (and publisher) Gervais F. Reed had piped that Dewey would be upset. And on Oct. 25 the Prescott (Ariz.) Courier (circ. 4,720) had said that, thanks to a divine power, the President would be "sustained in office." (The publisher's wife is a Democratic national committeewoman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: What Happened? | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...Jayne Prescott '51 and Cynthia Wales '52 lead a line of voracious 'Cliffedwellers to the basket of travelling sandwich men, Arthur S. W. Chantry 2L and Ellis French '48. The mobile snack bar service to Radcliffe dormitories was inaugurated last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Vendor Has in | 10/22/1948 | See Source »

Sabre: Garr (B) defeated Gay (H), 5-4, and MacNeil (H), 5-4. Ellis (H) defeated Peckham (B), 5-2, Prescott (B), 5-0, and Garr (B), 5-3. Gay (H) defeated Prescott (B), 5-0, and Peckham (B), 5-4. MacNeil (H) defeated Struck (B), 5-1, and Peckham...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swordsmen Come From Behind to Out-Parry Brown | 2/19/1948 | See Source »

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