Word: wendelle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fighting Rooster. Rushing into a death-created vacancy, Prosecutor Halleck won the Second Congressional District seat in 1935, thus became the only Hoosier among the 103 House Republicans left after Democratic landslides. "I felt like a banty rooster in a barn lot full of Percherons," he says. "I said, '...
Died. Edward John Noble, 76, upstate New Yorker who pooled funds with a friend, bought the Life Savers Co. in 1913 for $2,900, poked a hole in the candy mints, packaged them brightly, watched his business grow into Beech-Nut Life Savers, Inc. with sales well over $100 million...
Twice a week after breakfast, Walter Lippmann sequesters himself in the study of his ivy-clad home on Washington's sedate Woodley Road to write his syndicated column, "Today and Tomorrow." The study is manifestly a scholar's lair. Ceiling-high, Pompeian red bookcases line three walls; the...
Idealogues of History and Lit have since expanded or amended Wendell's views, but for most the "natural intellectual union" of the disciplines has remained the chief justification for the existence of History and Lit. Perkins, for example, "cannot see how Shakespeare could have written as he did at any...
The History and Literature that the tutors of the Thirties taught and at which some current tutors aim went beyond Barrett Wendell's original aims. It was a synthesis of the disciplines rather than a combination; it sought an understanding of an entire period or country through the study of...