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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stone was just out of Yale Law School in 1940 and working for the Appellate Court in Albany when a friend asked him to help out with a new radio program of book reviews. Amateur Stone thought the idea of "just talking for 15 minutes" over Albany's 250-watt WABY sounded dull. Instead, he suggested that a group of people sit around and discuss books. One day Stone asked visiting Author Jan Struther, then lecturing in Albany, if she would join in the discussion of Mrs. Miniver. She did, the program clicked, and Variety gave it a good...
Minding the Baby. They were willing to look back over the past four months and review their record. They felt that record needed no apologies. The start had been slow, not to say a little embarrassing, in view of the early January confidence of such Republican leaders as Senator Robert Taft. G.O.P. leaders probably should have known better. No new Congress could turn out legislation the way Taft and others had indicated that the 80th would. Congress had had no help from President Truman, who, when the 80th had convened, had sat back with...
Music 1 students will have their final chance to brush up on the classics Sunday and Monday evenings when WHCN will broadcast their examination period program, Music 1 Review, from 7:30 to 11:30 o'clock each evening...
Naff, a graduate of the University of Texas, Summa Cum Laude, at present holds a National Scholarship here, and is editor of The Law Review. He will use his Fellowship for study of Jurisprudence at Oxford University...
...late," says Author Caldwell. "I always loved clothes, for instance. I used to faint from starvation in the office . . . just to save money to buy them. . . . Now clothes don't mean anything to me." But a few months ago, when Critic Edwin Seaver suggested in the Saturday Review of Literature that "the specter of commercialism" was haunting U.S. literature, Author Caldwell (who is now vacationing in Paris and Rome) turned on him like a tigress. "My most 'lyrical prose,' " she retorted, "has resulted from the anticipation of big checks ... a new home, a trip, or a mink...