Word: wilmarth
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Rabbits & Flies. The environment into which Nelson was born on July 8, 1908 appeared to need no working on. Grandfather John Davison Rockefeller had hammered together the Standard Oil Trust and amassed a billion dollars along the way. Grandfather Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, at the time senior Senator from Rhode Island, ruled the Senate and bellowed at the White House. The young Rockefellers, obviously, had wealth, power and prestige. But they were allowed to revel in none of the three. Instead, they learned their gentle father's code: "Every right implies a responsibility, every opportunity an obligation, every possession...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 11:30 a.m., CBS). The Letters of Horace Walpole, discussed by Wilmarth Lewis and Louis Kronenberger...
Charles Eustis Bohlen '27, counselor to the State Department; John Ciardi, Briggs-Copeland assistant professor of English: John R. Dos Passos '16, novelist; Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, author and editor and a member of the Yale University Corporation; David Edward Owen, professor of History and chairman of the Committee on General Education; and Warren Abner Seavey '02, Bussey Professor...
...research ranges from Tacitus to spiders, from servomechanisms (socalled slave machines) to cancer and carbon 14 (the radioactive isotope that dates objects up to 30,000 years old). In its library (4,000,000 volumes), scholars are now in the process of editing the fabulous Boswell papers and the Wilmarth S. Lewis collection of Walpoliana. The "Boswell Factory" and the "Walpole Factory" alone make Yale the custodian of the most impressive collection of 18th Century English literature in the world...