Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gentleman in Arkansas. James William Fulbright is young (37), handsome, wealthy and a Rhodes scholar (1925). He talked and whittled his way into the hearts of farmers and storekeepers in Arkansas' mountainous Third District and won the Democratic Congressional nomination against Supreme Court Justice Karl Greenhaw, a protege of Governor Homer Adkins. Going to the crossroads and hill farms, Gentleman Fulbright convinced the people that a little learning, a little farming, a little wealth and a little business would not hurt a Congressman who retained his horse sense. His Philadelphia-born wife went to picnics and ice cream socials...
India & the World. It was the ninth time since 1921 that Pandit (Great Scholar) Nehru had gone to jail. Only twice has he been out for more than a year at a time. Yet for ten years he was secretary general of the Congress party, three times its president and, next to the half-naked Mahatma (Great Soul) Gandhi, the most powerful figure in India's political life. As a sensitive liberal and a world statesman, Nehru has outgrown the shadow of his overage Messiah. But Gandhi, self-willed, self-made symbol of the Hindu peasant, has clamped Nehru...
Died. Arnold Genthe, 73, famed photographer of the famous, of heart disease, at Lake Candlewood, Conn. Berlin-born, a classical scholar, he took notable pictures of the San Francisco earthquake, many a stage and literary personality. He took the photograph that got Greta Garbo her first U.S. movie contract...
...months he has been in a tiny padded cell, this frail little man with glittering eyes and a gentle smile-five hours a day, four days a week. He is not crazy, just listening. The man is Hungary's eminent composer and music scholar, Bela Bartok (Piano Concertos, Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion Instruments, MikroKosmos). The cell is a phonograph-listening room at Columbia University. He is listening to some 2,500 double-sided aluminum phonograph discs on which is impressed the largest recorded collection of Yugoslav folk songs ever made...
...strung along the thread, Mills's coeducational summer session had 350 students for the summer. One group lived in Orchard-Meadow Hall with A. Maurois, speaking passable French and concentrating on durable French culture. Another, forming a Casa Pan-Americana, bandied Spanish and Portuguese with famed Latin-American Scholar Samuef Guy Inman, even staged fiestas for visiting Latin-American sailors. For music, there was French Composer Darius Milhaud and the Budapest String Quartet, with whom some quartet-struck students carried on a mild flirtation. There were also Architect Richard Neutra, ex-German Political Scientist Hans Simons, many another native...