Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent executive act, completely and irrevocably throwing Wilson Wyatt's program into the presidential ashcan, makes even more pressing the crystallizing of public sentiment on this vital issue," Karson said...
Critic Edward Wilson's latest book, which has aroused legal furors in three states, with cases pending in several others, is not in the regular stacks of the library but is locked instead in a special case, once euphemistically referred to by library workers as "the Interne...
After the first Wallace issue the book section, famed in the days of Francis Hackett and Edmund Wilson, plans to review books quickly and earnestly for the busy, peppy progressive who will have much to think and talk about. Dyed-in-the-old New Republic liberals would miss the accustomed archaic intellectuality...
General Motors last week shelved plans for the first "real postwar" G.M. cars-1948 models of Chevrolets, Pontiacs and Oldsmobiles. G.M. President Charles E. Wilson said that G.M. had canceled its orders for dies for 1948 models because strikes and shortages have put G.M. production so far behind schedule. As far as G.M. was concerned, 1948 would be a blank year for low-priced cars; the next such models would be 1949 (out in the fall...
There was no getting around it: Edmund Wilson's Memoirs of Hecate County was what the nonliterary citizen would call a raw book and decidedly not for the high-school youngsters. One of its six short stories had 20 more or less detailed descriptions of sexual intercourse. But Memoirs was no flippant bedroom farce. Fat, fiftyish Author Wilson, book critic for the New Yorker, had written it as a critique of modern manners and morals. Most reviewers agreed that it was an honest and intelligent work; many a reviewer and reader found it labored, obscure, pedantic and depressing...