Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Samuel P. Sears '17, in an open letter to Griswold, said...
...Certainly Amazed." Equally uncooperative but not so loud was Samuel Dashiell Hammett, the grey, gaunt writer of mystery stories (The Thin Man). Three hundred copies of Hammett's books are on the shelves in 73 of the libraries. Hammett said he thought that "it is impossible to write anything without taking some sort of stand on social issues," but he steadfastly refused to say whether he is or ever was a Communist...
...Hulda McGarvey Flynn, 42, for eight years (1933-41) a teacher of psychology at Mt. Holyoke and Smith, was summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee after an FBI counterspy testified that she had once taught at the Communist-run Samuel Adams School in Boston. When Mrs. Flynn refused to say whether or not she had ever been a Communist, the committee asked her about her husband, now a psychologist at the Naval Medical Research Institute in Bethesda. Said Mrs. Flynn: "I decline to answer...
Plowing the Ground. Through Houston's advance guard sometimes argues with Chillman's conservative taste, no one argues with his results. The museum collections have grown to a solid $3,500,000 worth of treasures. Manhattan's Samuel Kress Foundation will soon add another 33 old masters. And work is going ahead on a new wing to the white limestone building that will provide 3,000 sq. ft. more of exhibition space when it is finished this fall. Best of all, says Chillman, Texans are using the museum; the 1952 attendance was more than...
...professor at M.I.T. and a pioneer in the development of machines to do the work of men (Cybernetics-TIME, Dec. 27, 1948), he has written a book that rivals in psychological interest, if not in literary skill, the recollections of such other youthful prodigies as John Stuart Mill and Samuel Butler...