Word: tilburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Richardson affair seemed to poison the whole atmosphere of the campus. Lecturer-Author Walter Van Tilburg Clark (The Ox-Bow Incident) resigned in protest; other scholars charged Stout with everything from "favoritism" to "inhuman and capricious treatment," and last spring the American Association of University Professors censured the administration for violation of academic freedom and tenure. By that time, the Nevada legislature had gone out after Stout...
Though Richardson was later ordered reinstated by the State Supreme Court, his case snowballed. Author Walter Van Tilburg Clark (The Ox Bow Incident) accused the administration of "seeking to reduce the university to a manageable mediocrity," handed in his resignation as a lecturer in English. Economist Arthur L. Grey Jr. declared that the university was "in full retreat" from democracy, and Biologist Thomas Little resigned after accusing Stout of granting faculty raises on the basis of "favoritism...
Track of the Cat (Wayne-Fellows; Warner). In his novel about a catamount chase, Walter Van Tilburg Clark suggested that the evil his characters do stalks after them in the form of a black panther. On the screen, an actor comes right out and mutters hollowly that the panther "is the evil in everybody...
...saloon guests of onetime Manhattan Society Reporter Lucius Beebe and Author Charles Clegg. The occasion: their purchase and revival of the long-defunct old sagebrush weekly, The Territorial Enterprise, in which Mark Twain got his first byline in 1863. Among the new contributing staff: Walter Van Tilburg Clark and Bernard DeVoto...
...Theater (Sun. 2 p.m., NBC). Walter Van Tilburg Clark's The Track...