Word: stephen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cannot now give him the title of "the" or even "a" great American novelist, if he progresses as logically away from uncertainty as up to the present, and grows in every technical power as he has so far done, he will undoubtedly be placed in the company of Melville, Stephen Crane...
Hale and a friend, Sergeant Stephen Hempstead, went to Norwalk, Conn. "Capt. Hale had changed his uniform for a plain suit of citizen's brown clothes," the sergeant recalled later, "with a round broad-brimmed hat; assuming the character of a Dutch schoolmaster." Before they parted company, Hale left all his valuables and papers, except for his Yale diploma (which he needed to establish his disguise) with the sergeant. Then a friendly sea captain ferried him across Long Island Sound to Huntington, and left...
Conversation (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). What Would I Do If I Had Only Six Months to Live? Discussed by Henry Morgan, Stephen Potter, Clifton Fadiman...
Next spring's varsity outdoor manager will be Irwin J. Eisinger '56, and his assistant will be Stephen L. Singer...
...Married. Stephen Potter. 55, bony British humorist famed for his puckish "man-ship" books (Gamesmanship, One-Upmanship, Lifemanship); and Mrs. Heather Jenner. 39, blonde, bestselling (Marriage Is My Business) British authority on courtship; both for the second time (her first ended in divorce after her husband accused her of adultery, naming Potter as corespondent); in London...