Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...balding Scholar Wilson came one of those attentions he never got in the cloistered days before his Memoirs of Hecate County was banned. His fourth and current wife, Elena, was nominated by a group of magazine artists one of the Ten Most Glamorous Women...
...into closed session in the Willard Hotel's Congressional Room. When they emerged they had a name (Americans for Democratic Action), a bankroll ($9,-300), and a 25-man organizing committee, loaded with headline names: labor leaders Walter Reuther and Dave Dubinsky; A.V.C.'s chairman and Rhodes Scholar Charles Bolte; ex-OWI Boss Elmer Davis; U.D.A.'s Chairman Reinhold Niebuhr; Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (Eleanor Roosevelt was present, but she begged off serving on the committee). As cochairmen, the committeemen picked old New Dealer Leon Henderson and ex-Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt...
Delegates-elect are scheduled to meet with representative of more than 50 AVC chapters in the Bay State Saturday at the Old South Meeting Mouse. Heading the list of featured speakers is Charles G. Bolte, national chairman of the organization and recently-named Rhodes Scholar...
Hugh MacLennan, a top Canadian novelist (Barometer Rising, Two Solitudes), is an alert, perceptive native of Cape Breton, N.S. who has been around quite a lot. After sampling life in England (as a Rhodes scholar), and in the U.S. (as a graduate student at Princeton for three years), he decided that Canada was the place to live after all. In MacLean's Magazine this week 39-year-old Novelist MacLennan gives some reasons why the U.S. is not his choice...
...because eleven years ago a young Englishman named Allen Lane decided that the people who shopped at Woolworth's would just as soon buy good literature as bad. Penguin Books, London, which he founded, was enormously successful, at first with reprints, then with new books. Recently Lane hired Scholar Rieu to edit a series of classics in new translations. This is his first, and it is good...