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What manner of being is an egghead? Do you mean a sort of Martini-sipping Guru of beer-guzzling disciples? Or just anyone in whom intellect surpasseth understanding? . . . Perhaps . . . your readers can give us a clarifying definition of this intriguing word coinage ... So many of TIME'S readers in your Letters column acknowledge being eggheads, we should certainly be able to pin this thing down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 15, 1952 | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

...three films are enjoyable. To excellent acting by a cast which includes some of England's best--James Hayter, Naunton Wayne, Wilfred Hyde-White, and Roland Culver--has been added good and often brilliant photography, and to both, Maugham's ingenuity which surpasseth all frailty...

Author: By Thomas C. Wheeler, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 1/10/1951 | See Source »

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