Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arrived: junketing Columnist Earl Wilson; at the Ernest Hemingway farm outside Havana. Among the Wilson news flashes to the home folks: that the Hemingways now have 22 cats in their house, all in one room, and "Sure," says Hemingway, "we're going to call the room 'the cat house...
Isaiah Bowman did. From the little boy who liked to pore over stones on his father's farm, he grew up to become the nation's top geographer. He wrote 14 books on the subject, was Woodrow Wilson's boundary expert at Versailles ("Tell me what's right," commanded Wilson, "and I'll fight for it"). His name was stamped on far-off places. There is a Bowman Bay, a Bowman Island, a Bowman glacier...
...President Charles W. Eliot had to admit that his own graduate school, "started feebly in 1870, did not thrive until . . . Johns Hopkins forced [it to]." To the tidy campus on the edge of Baltimore went Poet Sidney Lanier, Viscount Bryce, and James Russell Lowell to teach or lecture. Woodrow Wilson, John Dewey and Walter Reed studied there. Its medical school, which often overshadowed the rest of it, also had its prophets: famed Physician William Osier, Gynecologist Howard A. Kelly, Pathologist William H. Welch, Surgeon William S. Halsted...
General Electric's Charles E. Wilson sounded disillusioned. Two months ago he had slashed the prices of about half G.E.'s products (TIME, Jan 12), hoping to start a "chain reaction" of lower prices from industry and head off an inflationary third round of wage increases from labor. What he got, said he, was sneers and new wage demands from the CIO union at G.E. (which G.E. turned down this week), and price hikes by many another company. Said Wilson: "An expensive gesture...
Born. To Edmund ("Bunny") Wilson, 52, literary critic (the New Yorker) whose clinically detailed, bestselling Memoirs of Hecate County brought him national renown, and fourth wife Elena Thornton Wilson, 41 (voted one of the "Ten Most Glamorous Women of 1946"): their first child, a daughter; in Boston...