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Moore's first guinea pig, in 1958, was his daughter Venn, who was then' two years and seven months old. At four years and five months, she now types letters to friends and reads Lassie stories to her baby sitters. After Venn came 35 other children, many of them from Hamden Hall, a suburban New Haven private school, which now plans to set up a sizable Moore-style lab. On the evidence so far, Hamden Hall may have to revamp its entire primary school curriculum. One girl of not quite four read at third-grade level after Moore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: O.K.'s Children | 11/7/1960 | See Source »

Over 50 leading figures in the publishing world will address the Publishing Procedures Course, given by Radcliffe over the summer, Mrs. Diggory Venn, director, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 50 Editors and Writers to Speak In Publishing Course at Radcliffe | 7/24/1958 | See Source »

...program is designed to give recent college graduates "a practical course to bridge the gap between a liberal arts education and actual working experience," offering instruction in all phases of publishing, Mrs. Venn noted. In its seven years of existence, it has prepared over 500 students for jobs with book publishers, magazines, newspapers and miscellanous house organs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 50 Editors and Writers to Speak In Publishing Course at Radcliffe | 7/24/1958 | See Source »

When The Man Who Came to Dinner opened on Broadway in 1939, it was an immediate hit, ran for 739 performances. Last week L'Homme Qui Etait Venn Pour Diner closed in Paris after 16 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: French Without Tears | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

...soon finds out, when the Goddess herself appears in the form of an unscrupulous female named Erica-a "triple-faced, ash-blonde bitch" with whom Poet Venn-Thomas had had a gruesome love affair in the Late Christian Epoch. What Erica does to overcivilized New Crete is something awful. She plants some 20th Century cigarettes in the closet of a cute little nymph named Sapphire; she fouls up the witches, hexes the horses, mortifies the magicians. By the time she's through, New Crete is on the verge of collapse-at which point Poet Venn-Thomas sensibly decides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Perils of Utopia | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

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