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Historian. As a young man Mark Sullivan was vastly impressed by the late Harry Thurston Peck's brilliant history of the contemporary U. S., Twenty Years of the Republic (1885-1905). Years later after seeing many a U. S. political event from the inside, Journalist Sullivan began to read accounts of some of them and say to himself, "That was not the way it happened." History, he concluded, can never be rightly written from documents alone. Too much happens behind the scenes, too much is decided by a passing word or nod of the head, too many varying accounts...
...begged, "to assist Missourians in paying the 1% sales tax imposed by their Legislature?" Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. assented. Franklin Roosevelt drew a picture of the coins as he would like them (TIME, Aug. 5). A bill went to the House Committee on Coinage, Weights & Measures, where Representative Lloyd Thurston of Osceola, Iowa made this proposal...
Married. Howard Franklin Thurston, 65, famed magician; and Pauline Mark, 27, his assistant whom he was accustomed to saw in half on the stage; in Harrison, N. Y. She met him 15 years ago when, on a Chicago stage, he turned a box of candy into a white rabbit...
Three leaves of absence granted to faculty members were announced yesterday as approved by the Corporation. Manley O. Hudson, Bemis Professor of International Law, and Edward S. Thurston '98, professor of Law, are taking sabbatical leaves for the second half of next year. Kenneth G. T. Webters '93, assistant professor of English, is taking the first half of next year...
...many centuries authors have tried to portray the power of Christ and his influence over all men. The picture has been drawn in innumerable ways, by E. Temple Thurston has found perhaps the most striking device possible in the story of "The Wandering...