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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This time the varsity will be on its home links. The first match was played at BU's Oakley Country Club, which has several short par-four holes, easy to approach. At Dedham the second shots are longer, and BU may find the course tougher to play...
Quartet. Four lively vignettes of Britons at home & abroad; from Somerset Maugham short stories (TIME...
...Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre has unreeled itself both forward and backward in the past five years. His latest plays (or what is left of them after translation) have been produced in Manhattan, while publishers have busied themselves resurrecting his prewar fiction. His second book, The Wall, a volume of short stories first published in France in 1939, was brought out in the U.S. last year (TIME, Dec. 27). It is now followed by his first and most famous novel, Nausea, a book that made a splash among Paris intellectuals in 1938. Sartre's recent essays in What Is Literature...
...lifetime, Nathaniel Hawthorne was known as a novelist, short-story writer, and active Democratic politician; the main event in his political career was his abrupt dismissal from a customshouse job (after charges of dishonesty, incompetence and political corruption), by order of President Zachary Taylor. He was also widely known as the enthusiastic biographer of the inept and unlucky President Franklin Pierce. Hawthorne's praise of his friend Pierce was still ringing in men's ears when Pierce's administration collapsed in fiasco...
Countless Sunday feature articles are going to appear in the next few weeks on Dr. Koussevitzky's career in Boston, but he himself summed it up accurately in his short talk to the audience Saturday. "We have done a tremendous achievement," he said. "We have worked together and created the most perfect instrument that exists in all the world...