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...gift was made to establish two annual national scholarships, Dickey stated at a special Dartmouth Night convocation marking the 100th anniversary of the death of Daniel Webster, a famous graduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Gets Gift, Starts National Fund | 10/21/1952 | See Source »

Harvard looks better than over to Sir Charles Webster, former professor of diplomatic history here and now at the London School of Economics, who spent the weekend in Cambridge and attended the Colgate game with President Conant. Sir Charles is in this country for a term's research at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-Professor Lauds Harvard Life After 20 Year Absence | 10/21/1952 | See Source »

Died. H. T. (Harold Tucker) Webster, 67, cartoonist ("The Timid Soul," "Life's Darkest Moment," "The Thrill That Comes Once in a Lifetime") of a heart attack; on a train near Bridgeport, Conn. Webster's most popular creation was fluttery, myopic Caspar Milquetoast, but he was nearly as well-known for his cartooned jibes at bridge and canasta fiends, radio & TV (for which he received a Peabody Award in 1950), wives who never understand a joke, and for his knowing, sometimes poignant recollections of a turn-of-the-century childhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 29, 1952 | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

Invitation to Learning (Sun. 11:35 a.m., CBS). Shakespeare's Henry V discussed by Director Margaret Webster and Critic Louis Kronenberger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Sep. 8, 1952 | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

...wrote that it would be better to "clasp the term 'huckster' to our bosoms . . . use it to describe the bad actors in advertising." Nashville's H. C. Daniels, advertising manager of the Methodist Publishing House, complained that Wakeman's usage had now even got into Webster's. "When it is discovered . . . that I am in the advertising business," wrote Daniels, "there is either a nervous titter or hastily changed conversation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Huckster Shuckers | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

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