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Novelist Margaret Mitchell, who put Atlanta back on the literary map, will christen the cruiser Atlanta, ∙∙Now that President Roosevelt has gone back to the old Thanksgiving, Republican Governor Sumner Sewall has proclaimed the new Thanksgiving for the first time in Maine. ∙∙ An unidentified axman vainly tried to decapitate Sabrina, the bronze nymph for whom 80 generations of Amherst classes have fought one another. ∙∙ Prophet Wilbur Glen Voliva of Zion, Ill. predicted a bad end for the dictators by plunging into a lake of fire (Revelation 21:8). ∙∙ Dr. Samuel Harden Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Ladies & Ancients | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

...there was one important bearer of tidings whom he received: James Forrestal, 49, Under Secretary of the Navy, amiably cynical ex-Wall Streeter, who had just returned to Washington after two and a half weeks in Britain. Forrestal was the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit wartime Britain since Sumner Welles's ill-fated exploratory peace trip in 1940-for unofficial Ambassadors Willkie and Hopkins, and innumerable minor observers, have had no such formal posts. What the Under Secretary reported was not officially disclosed, but Washington's version of the Forrestal report was specific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Report from Britain | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

...Jeanne Owens, Belmont Paul Fulton Mary Sullivan, Somerville Robert P. Hopewell Carolyne Prince Warren Mansfield Jean Flynn, Hartford, Conn. Wallace McDonald Marilyn Edwards, Smith Edgar B. Stern, Jr. Peggy Lemenberger, Pine Manor John J. Teal, Jr. Doris Archer, Sarah Lawrence Phillips N. Weeks Nancy Whitney, Brimmer HOLWORTHY HALL Sumner G. Albion Evelyn Jackson, Thornton Academy Richard L. Banks Jane Herbert, Wellesley Robert J. Bell Nancy Crowley, Radcliffe Eric H. Cawley Marianna Evans, Simmons Robert W. Clifford Ruth Hewitt, Wellesley Robert C. Enggass Janet Clarke, Chamberlain Charles P. Gabeler, Jr. Frances Hutchins, Pine Manor Edward F. Green Tamara Polevoy, Radcliffe Laurence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 300 COUPLES TO ATTEND JUBILEE | 5/23/1941 | See Source »

Like Freud, he helped destroy the 18th-and 19th-Century illusion that man is a rational creature. Like William Graham Sumner (Folkways), he disturbed civilization by disclosing the relativity of morals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Folklore Man | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

Again showing their lack of reserves, the Varsity lacrosse team went down to defeat yesterday afternoon at the hands of a powerful Dartmouth squad 14 to 3. Harvard scorers were Bill Ierardi, who later in the game injured his left leg again, Carl Sullivan, and Sumner Simmons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stickmen Lose 14-3 | 5/14/1941 | See Source »

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