Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conant will be at home to all members of the teaching and administrative staffs and their wives from 4 to 6 p.m. on the first Sunday of each month...
After disconsolately considering 30 candidates, Markel suddenly thought of a man who had not even applied. Last week Sunday Editor Markel got his man: Francis Brown, 45, an Old Times Hand and, for the last four years, a senior editor of TIME...
...Dartmouth to teach history, got a Ph.D. in history from Columbia, and published a biography of a minor American Revolutionary figure (Joseph Hawley of Massachusetts). After a. spell as associate editor of the Times's monthly news review, Current History, Brown moved over to Lester Markel's Sunday department in 1936. He was assistant Sunday editor when he left, in 1945, to join TIME, where he has been editor of the Hemisphere, Canadian and Latin America sections...
...book-reviewing business, which is not generally noted for its high pay, the Times's book section is an oasis of prosperity, if not brilliance. But Lester Markel knows, more intimately than most, that it is not yet doing a first-rate job. The Sunday book section, now frankly a "news book review," tries to balance its major reviews with quick looks at minor books, literary letters from overseas, interviews with big-name authors and book-trade gossip. New Editor Brown expects to do it better. Said Markel hopefully last week: "We'll get along. Brownie knows...
...Paris, Guy found rich compensations for his drudgery. He was befriended by the great novelist Gustave Flaubert and brought into the master's Sunday literary circle. There he sat at the feet of Europe's literary greats: Turgenev, Zola, Edmond de Goncourt, Alphonse Daudet, Hippolyte Taine and occasionally Henry James. Zola remembered De Maupassant as "a proud he-man [who] told us dumfounding stories about women, amorous swaggerings that sent Flaubert into roars of laughter...