Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because he has always intensely loved them, Floyd Clymer knows primitive automobiles, motorcycles and their labyrinthine lore as a classical scholar knows the conflicting texts of Manilius. Clymer has always salted down automotive data and keepsakes. In his office files are scores of automobile articles, thousands of automobile advertisements, which he saved from old magazines like Horseless Age and Ainslee's Advertiser...
...boss, William Yandell Elliott, is big (6 ft. 2 in.), barrel-chested, fond of using his booming voice. Born in Tennessee, he went to Vanderbilt University, left it to serve abroad in World War I as a field artillery lieutenant. Later, as a Rhodes scholar, he distinguished himself by 1) earning a D. Phil.,* 2) exploding a giant firecracker behind the dignified dean of Balliol College. He taught at the University of California, later moved to Harvard as associate professor of government. Trying his hand at a textbook for his classes, he found that none of his students could understand...
...thodox Church. He doggedly insisted on peace with Bolshevism as the price for the Church's survival. His years of patient waiting were rewarded last year with the official restoration of the Church, his own formal recognition as Patriarch (TIME, Sept. 13 et seg.). A great theological scholar, he last month challenged the Pope as vicar of Christ, proposed a union of churches under one leader chosen from among bishops of the world's capitals...
...Lice. Dr. Nikolic, another Partisan surgeon, is a little, weary man with a fighter's heart and a scholar's mind (in 1926 he held a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship to study malaria). In 1943 the Germans put him in a concentration camp, held him there nine months until the Partisans traded a German officer for him. Among the Partisans his fight has been as much against disease as against wounds...
...Barkers. J. B. Morton (as his friends know him) is one of England's foremost versifiers (Who's Who at the Zoo, The Adventures of Mr. Thake, The Dancing Cabman) and a serious scholar specializing in the French Revolution ( The Bastille Falls). He has been the "Beachcomber" 20 years, but his success in whimsey is not unique...