Word: sheldon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Arsenic and Old Lace opened in London in 1942, a great many people doubted whether war-torn Britons would find murder and madness very amusing. Last week, with its 1,050th performance, Arsenic nosed out Edward Sheldon's Romance to become the longest-running U.S. play in London's history. Everybody from the Royal Family down had seen it; Mrs. Churchill had seen it twice...
...list of cumulative bestsellers over the years from 1880 to the present is In His Steps, a pious novel by the Rev. Charles Monroe Sheldon describing a community which followed the teachings of Jesus literally. It has sold more than 8,000,000 copies. Close behind, in this order, are Scrapbookster Elbert Hubbard's Message to Garcia (4,000,000), Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind (3,625,000), Dale Carnegie's How To Win Friends and Influence People (2,751,000), Lew Wallace's Ben Hur (2,500,000), and Marion Hargrove...
...make the punishment fit the crime helps neither the criminal nor society. After 20 years of studying criminals in & out of jail, this is the conclusion reached by Harvard's famed criminologists, Sheldon and Eleanor T. Glueck. In After-Conduct of Discharged Offenders (Macmillan-$2.50), they go beyond their previous factual reports (TIME, May 6, 1940 et ante) to propose radical reform in legal punishments, judicial sentencing and the work of parole boards...
...means just One Thing to all men. The hero really loves the nice girl (Joan Leslie) who loves him, but he doesn't know it yet. He gets hold of a magic lamp in a scrap-salvage drive. The lamp breaks, and releases a gaily kosher genie (Gene Sheldon). The grateful genie gives him three wishes -which rather confusingly turn out to be four or five...
...twelfth anniversary of the election of President Conant by the Corporation to fill the post vacated by the late A. Lawrence Lowell. One of the youngest men to become head of the University--only Charles W. Eliot and Henry Dunster were younger when they were elected--he was Sheldon Emery Professor of Chemistry and chairman of the Chemistry Department at the time...