Word: richter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Members of the Graduate Council representing all University and Radcliffe students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences last night at the Appian Way Club overwhelmingly elected Melvin Richter 1G to be president of the group next year...
...Paul E. Richter, who helped Jack Frye put T.W.A. on the air map, quit as T.W.A.'s executive vice president with some harsh words: "I cannot agree with the policies, the programs, or the procedures proposed by the controlling stockholder" (i.e., Howard Hughes). The fourth top man to quit this year, Richter's departure left T.W.A. with little airwise talent on the executive committee temporarily running the line...
Elected from the area of Social Sciences were Mary Lou Bensley 2G, Shreekant A. Palekar 1G, Andrew E. Rice 1G, and Richard N. Swift 1G. Those appointed were Munro S. Edmonson 1G, Florence K. Nierman 2G, Melvin Richter 1G, O. Glenn Saxon 1G, and W. P. Snavely...
Most of Conrad Richter's story might have been written by Booth Tarkington. In a transparent and innocent style he tells of Lucy Markle, a beautiful smalltown girl at the turn of the century remembered "in an old yellow snapshot." Because she had remained faithful to her dead lover, people admired her, for death and dignity were taken seriously then...
Lucy became a rich spinster and a legend in the town, a legend that eventually woke up to itself and had the shakes. Richter's quiet sketching of the period after the Spanish-American War, and the life of the "better families" might seem merely nostalgic in intent, if it were not for the touches that finally bring bitter horror out of Lucy's narcissistic dream. At that point Richter actually makes a ghost (Lucy's dead father) walk...