Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...background of this crusader deserved some attention. Joe's father was a man who had studied for the ministry, gave it up after he read Robert Ingersoll, married a Kentuckian, studied law but never practiced, taught school, sold textbooks, became a Bull Mooser and a Woodrow Wilson internationalist. Joe, the sixth of seven children, was born in Crookston, Minn., in 1905. Joe played football at high school, worked as a farmhand and went to Antioch College. He topped off his education at the University of Minnesota and got a job on the Minneapolis Journal as a $15-a-week...
Beautiful Ugliness. Samuel T. Wilson, Columbus Dispatch drama critic and dean of Columbus reviewers, wrote that Moon is "the playwright's present towering achievement as a dramatic craftsman and above all as a poet . . . full of sentiment, music and meaning, warmth of human observation and comment, and vast sorrowfulness." Bud Kissel of the Columbus Citizen disputed: "A competent cast that never muffed a line nor missed a cue wasted their talents on an unimportant play." But Mary McGavran of the Ohio State Journal called the play "beautiful in its very ugliness." And William F. McDermott of the Cleveland Plain...
Howard E. Wilson, UNESCO's deputy director, had already seen a need for the person so trained: the international civil .servant. Said Wilson: "He must be more than a transplanted citizen of his homeland. He must be a citizen of the world...
...Princeton's faculty, professor emeritus of Germanic languages and literature, noted translator (Goethe's Faust); in Princeton. Known to generations of Princeton undergraduates for his nickname ("Judas Priest"), his gentle good humor and his rumpled tweeds, he was one of the original preceptors (tutors) appointed by Woodrow Wilson...
...Princeton, the travel bug had ruined him for normal life. Once, in the middle of a lecture, he took a desperate flying leap out of an open window, landed safely on a ladder that he had known was there, and clambered joyfully down-only to find Princeton President Woodrow Wilson awaiting him at the bottom. "Was the lecture very boring, Mr. Hall?" asked Wilson. "Very, sir." The president gave him a friendly smile, and walked...