Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scholar in Crime. As Major Maclay, Forger Thiel was a connoisseur of fine wines and food. He read scholarly works on engineering, medicine and art. He bought $150 suits, $25 shirts, $10 neckties. He often wintered in Miami...
Last week ex-Rhodes Scholar Pete Brandt was unanimously chosen by fellow newsmen to be the first recipient of the $500 annual Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for the fairness and quality of his Washington reporting. He got the prize at a White House Correspondents' dinner attended by Franklin Roosevelt. The President had not been told the winner's name beforehand, only that it was someone he liked and respected. Said he, when Brandt's name was announced: "I'd have voted the same...
Died. Lord Alfred Douglas, 74, scholar, sonneteer, son of boxing's famed rules-maker, the late eighth Marquess of Queensberry, whose note denouncing young Alfred's friend, Oscar Wilde, was the cause of Wilde's libel suit and subsequent imprisonment for pederasty; after long illness ; in Lancing, Sussex, England. Lord Alfred spent a lifetime defending and explaining himself and his poet friend (Oscar, Wilde and Myself, Autobiography, Oscar Wilde: a Summing...
...Manhattan's Stork Club, accepted congratulations from cafe society as the author of a 6,000-word history of nightclubs, to be printed in the next edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica-which is noticing nightclubs for the first time in 177 years of publication. Pocketing his $120 (the scholar's rate of 2? a word) Author Billingsley lost no time about getting in a professional plug: "Nightclubs are here to stay. Curfews and taxes can't kill them . . . even the Britannica has come to realize...
...Among the small, select group of U.S. quarterlies: American Scholar, Antioch Review, Kenyon Review, Partisan Review, Sewanee Review, South Today, Virginia Quarterly Review, Yale Review