Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John S. Sumner, who as executive secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice has probably read more dirty books, looked at more obscene postcards, and watched more burlesque shows than any man in the U.S., last week got the law on Book Critic Edmund Wilson's best-selling (50,000 copies), clinically sexy Memoirs of Hecate County (TIME, March...
Manhattan's gum-chewing, lip-smacking Daily News had the last word. Said the News: "Memoirs is [Edmund Wilson's] first score on the best-seller list, and the only reason it was there for several weeks is because word got around that oh, boy, you ought to get a load of this...
...think Wilson has done anything for literature and we don't think Sumner is doing anything for public morals. However, he has done something pretty big for Doubleday and Wilson...
...Princeton's Christian Gauss, 68, judicious, quizzical, pince-nezed professor of modern languages, longtime Dean of the College. Gauss and three others, all retiring now, are the last of President Woodrow Wilson's 47 preceptors, appointed in 1905. Another: Edward Samuel Corwin, 68, professor of jurisprudence, historian of the Constitution and the Court, vigorous defender of Roosevelt's 1937 court-packing plan...
Anne Sullivan, obviously, possessed the good teacher's infinite patience, tolerance of repeated failure, and contagious enthusiasm. Woodrow Wilson, described as Princeton's "matinee-idol" professor of politics, had only the enthusiasm. Though he is included as a "great teacher," the former student who describes him writes that pupils were inspired by Wilson's intellect but repelled by his intellectuality. Because he knew all the answers, he froze most of his listeners...