Word: wilder
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rejected for tradition's sake, left London separately, but at the same time, for a country weekend. Margaret was a house guest of Viscount and Lady Hambleden, youthful (26 and 22, respectively) chaperons, if such be needed. Though Townsend's cronies were darkly evasive about his whereabouts, wilder speculation was that he and the Princess were having one last reunion before Townsend, for whom the course of true love proved impassable, departs on an around-the-world car tour (TIME, June 18) all by himself...
Amos Niven Wilder, Hollis professor of divinity at Harvard...
...woods near Saratoga Springs, Playwright Thornton Wilder sat composing a eulogy to the late Thomas Mann. As he wrote, a small balding man, quiet and sharp-eyed as a young deer, moved among the trees, observing and pausing to focus his Leica. The click of the shutter among the bird sounds and leaf rustles was inaudible. Later Wilder wrote in the photographer's memento book: "To Alfred Eisenstaedt-not only a master photographer but a presence so tactful and soothing that I found myself working -really working-and working extra well while he went about his task...
Playwright Wilder was one of 13 U.S. intellectuals photographed by Eisenstaedt for this week's cover story on Jacques Barzun and American intellectuals, written by Education Editor Bruce Barton Jr. In pursuit of intellectuals, "Eisie," who has been a LIFE photographer since the first experimental, pre-publication issues, traveled up and down the U.S. from...
...Laughing for the cameras, they took their trip to the Far East, where Japanese crowds smashed doors, mobbed cars and fell in fish ponds to get a look at the "Honorable Buttocks-Swinging Actress." When Marilyn sang and danced for the troops in Korea, she got a wilder reception than the news of peace in Seoul...