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World War II: Mobilized as medical aide, seriously wounded and taken prisoner (in German prison he completed writing a textbook on English Grammar and pronunciation), later was returned to Arras in prisoner exchange. Joined resistance, worked for four years in network called Libre-Nord under nom de guerre Laboule; three times arrested by Gestapo who failed to break him, last time released when condemned friend (executed next day) refused to identify him as-Laboule...
Despite her intense interest in her astronomical work, the busy professor and mother manages to maintain a remarkable degree of competence in subjects outside her field. Books on mythology and poetry line the walls of her Observatory office. Her textbook, Introduction to Astronomy, used in Astronomy 1, is spiked with apt quotations from classical mythology. As an undergraduate she won a college prize for a "critical essay on the Greek text of the Gospel of St. Matthew." ("It was a sitting duck," she says...
Thus after four tie games. Van Doren once found himself playing for $2,500 a point against a Manhattan textbook writer named Ruth Miller. He won 21-0, sweeping up $52,500. In all, he has mowed down ten opponents, including lawyers, teachers and an ex-college president, by tackling 50 questions on such subjects as Shakespeare, baseball, chemistry, art, medicine, explorers and the American Revolution. Over the weeks, while groaning, muttering and mugging, he has managed a staggering variety of hard ones, e.g., identifying the main Balearic Islands (Majorca, Minorca, Iviza and Formentera); the only three baseball players...
Some of his many books on the culture of the Middle East include "Iran," a widely used textbook; an English translation of "The Mediaeval History of Bukhara"; "The Persian History of Nishapur"; and "The History of the Nation of Archers," which was written in collaboration with R. P. Blake...
Between powder blue covers and printed on cheap newsprint rests one of the most interesting, amusing, and frightening books to come out of Russia in recent years. A textbook for students at the high school level in Georgia, English contains many "lessons" that reveal Russia's attitude toward the West and that point out many unfortunate weaknesses in our own society...