Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With amused interest I read in your May 26 Personality sketch of Walter Lippmann that he was one of the "bright young men called to Washington" during the Wilson Administration. Reflecting on the change of times, it would be almost impossible today to "call" young brain power into governmental service. To be sure, there are those who may "apply" for a job, fill out wordy dossiers on themselves, wait months for Civil Service classification (a process which insures mediocrity), and then undergo the humiliating "402, FBI-security" snoop...
...athlete's loose-jointed stride and crisply announced that he would take "as short a time as possible, so that we may proceed to the main program" (27 highly technical papers). He was as good as his word. Into little more than ten minutes, he compressed a sketch of progress in medical research, practice and teaching as it appears to Young Turk Wood...
...calm and cadaverous holy man who has generally-following a popular legend-just removed a thorn from a grateful lion's paw. Scholars have long known better. In A Monument to St Jerome (Sheed & Ward; $4.50) nine Roman Catholic authorities have 'written a combined character sketch of one of the livehest, most learned and most cantankerous saints ever to be canonized a pummeling controversialist who could sniff out obscure heresies as a veteran fire-buff smells smoke...
When the artist saw the reproduction of a sketch for Diego Rivera's new mural. The Nightmare of War and the Dream of Peace (TIME, March 17), he was angered by the symbolism that glorified Russia and derided the U.S. Translating his wrath into action, he picked up brush and palette, set to work on the painting shown here...
Warren D. Wylie '52, former football captain and chairman of the Class Day Committee, will outline plans for Class Week, while Chase N. Peterson '52 will sketch out the structure of the class after graduation. John L. Lewis '51 is to act as master-of-ceremonies during the brief speechmaking intermission and will introduce the Secretary, the Treasurer, and four Class Agents...