Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fulbright, a Democrat, is a former Rhodes Scholar and former President of the University of Arkansas...
...runs the show is scholarly, affable, 37-year-old Erwin Dain ("Spike") Canham, one of the nation's ablest news men. A Christian Scientist and a Rhodes scholar, he worked for the Monitor over seas and in Washington before promotion to his present job three years...
Author of these words is a passionately liberal Greek poet and scholar, 40-year-old Panayotis Kanellopoulos. He was in exile when he wrote them, and he knew the tragedy of Greece from his own bitter experience. As a volunteer army private, he had helped his countrymen hold back the Italian invaders. Then, amid chaos, confusion and treachery, he had stumbled back with them to Athens when the Germans moved in. Eventually he escaped, last March became War Minister and Vice Premier of the Greek Government in Exile. Four weeks ago he resigned. Last week the exiled government had moved...
Weismiller's project, "Creative writing in the field of poetry" will succeed his earlier work in that field which included a volume of verse published in 1936; "The Deer Come Down." Miss Edinger, famous for her articles published in German, French, and English, is a refugee scholar and will discuss the tooth replacement in Amphibia and Reptilia. Nabokov was born in Russia and is a scientist as well as novelist, his most recent novel being "The Real Life of Sebastian Knight...
...with the joy of life. It gets this quality partly from the acting of Mickey Rooney, who, despite some persistent Andy Hardy mannerisms, is for once something besides a showoff. But the real star of The Human Comedy is five-year-old Jack Jenkins. When he startles a bearded scholar in the town library by suddenly poking his freckled, wistful face before the man's eyes, the film sings. Best scene is the one in which he learns the meaning of "I'm afraid." A human advertising robot in a drugstore window does it. The robot glares...