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...volumes, and range from drama and epic poetry to novels and short stories. Except for a few of his short stories, nobody had ever bothered to translate Machado into English until William L. Grossman, a New York University economics professor, ran across his writings during a 1948 teaching stint in Brazil. Grossman became so fascinated that he spent all his holidays translating one of Machado's best novels, Epitaph of a Small Winner. U.S. readers who share Translator Grossman's enthusiasm for ironic wit and pessimism can enjoy an unusual book that now & then resembles Sterne...
Born in the Channel Islands, Haley quit school at 16 to go to sea as a telegrapher on a tramp steamer. Later, he cubbed on a provincial paper, did his brief stint on the Times and went up to Manchester to become a reporter on the Evening News. In a short time he was named news editor. He disdained a desk, worked standing up at a breast-high table so he would lose no time dashing off to composing room or editor's office. His nose for news was so sharp that, at 29, he was named editor...
Keep Them Guessing. Eartha returned to the U.S. six months ago, and now, with her role in New Faces and her after-the-show nightclub stint, is as busy as she has ever been in her life...
...gall. Two weeks before the season opened, Loes told Dressen:"You're looking for an opening-day pitcher; you got one right here." As it happened, Loes did pitch in the Ebbets Field opener in relief against the bitter-rival New York Giants. His two-hit, five-inning stint...
...Eastman Kodak Co., President Thomas J. Hargrave moved up to chairman of the board, the youngest chairman (60) in Eastman history, when Perley S. Wilcox, 77, retired. Into the presidency went Albert K. Chapman, 62, a Phi Beta Kappa from Ohio State University who joined the company after a stint with the Army in 1919. Chapman organized the company's development department, moved up through manufacturing to vice president and, in 1943, to general manager and a director of the company. ¶ Charles Fabian Herman Johnson Jr., 45, was elected president of Botany Mills, Inc., to succeed his father...