Word: textbooks
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Died. Robert Morss Lovett. 85, longtime (1893-1939) leftist faculty member of the University of Chicago, associate editor (1921-40) of the New Republic, Government Secretary to the Virgin Islands (1939-43), co-author with William Moody of the oldtime college textbook, A History of English Literature; in Chicago. Charged with Communist sympathies by the old Dies Committee. Lovett was fired from his Virgin Islands post, was cleared in 1946 by the U.S. Court of Claims...
...architect (University of Pennsylvania '33), but taught himself to draw maps when the building business dried up during the Depression. He still finds time to design an occasional house, including his own at Sharon, Conn. "Bob Chapin is far more than a cartographer," says Houghton Mifflin's Textbook Editor William E. Spaulding. "He approaches the job of illustrating in the spirit of a constructive and imaginative teacher...
...finest examples of string sextet, of which the first in B-flat (1860) was performed last night. Brahms achieved a perfect balance between Romanticism and Classicism; the stuff of his music is Romantic, but its manipulation and design are Classical. This warm and glowing sextet is a veritable textbook of almost endless varieties of string texture. For example, the Andante often uses the violas and 'cellos as a dark quartet; the Scherzo utilizes the six instruments in three pairs; and the Finale exploits the colors of a high and a low trio. All six instruments together produce a sumptuous texture...
...thereabouts, for his textbook has taught him so"-but it is not true, reports Dr. Betty Underhill in the British Medical Journal. In 100 autopsies she found men's small intestines ranging from 16 ft. to 25 ft. 9 in., women's from...
...board chairman of Colt's Manufacturing Co., which was taken over last week by Penn-Texas Corp. (TIME, Oct. 3). Born in Washington, B.C., West Pointer "Buck" Lanham wrote poetry until it interfered with his Army career, later edited Infantry in Battle, a widely used Army textbook. In World War II, he fought through Normandy and the Bulge with the 22nd Infantry Regiment, earned a jacketful of decorations, including the Distinguished Service Cross. ¶ Walter A. (for nothing) Haas, 66, the man who made denim work pants high fashion, moved up from president to board chairman of San Francisco...