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Morley Callaghan (class of '25) got the idea for this latest twist in university fund-raising last spring. Toronto had set itself a goal of $6,000,000 in gifts from alumni and friends, asked its most distinguished literary alumnus to write "a piece" for the campaign. Instead, Callaghan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Novel Approach | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Beef & Peanuts. Wilson drives his own Cadillac in from Longmeadow, his rambling fieldstone house on Island Lake, Mich., burning up the highway like a preoccupied Barney Oldfield. Longmeadow is comfortably livable, with garage room for five G.M. cars and wall space for scores of pictures of the Wilson farms, horses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Forty-Niners | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

The Story. The Snake Pit is the story of Virginia Cunningham (Miss de Havilland) who loses her mind, spends about a year in a state institution, and is released as cured. In the novel, the heroine's illness and its treatment remained undefined. Dramatically compressing the somewhat rambling original...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shocker | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

For the rest of the time the President swam, signed documents, lunched, napped, appeared in pith helmet and various tails-out sport shirts, strolled around the base, ate dinner, played poker in the evenings. He never went fishing and almost never ventured outside of the base into the flat, rambling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Play & Work | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

Evolution and English. "Imagine my delight," said Shaw when he received an inscribed first edition of Professor Wilson's rather heady treatise. Wilson, before getting down to the origins and philosophy of languages, had rehearsed the old controversy of natural selection v. creative evolution, the better to drub the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: G.B.S. on a Joy Ride | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

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