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Word: terrytop (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Baker Opdycke, husband of the Theatre Guild's famed Director Theresa Helburn (with whom he lives in a house called Terrytop in the Connecticut hills), is no mediocrity himself. Educated at Franklin and Marshall College, New York University, Cornell, Columbia and Oxford, he was a newshawk at three Olympic Games (1904, '08, '12), wrote 22 books on prose style, advertising technique, etc. He was also for 35 years a teacher of English, most of the time in New York City high schools, from which he retired at 60 last year. Teaching, journalism and writing developed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Don't Say It! | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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