Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Significance. Land I Have Chosen has been sold to Warner Bros, for $150,000. What it says is that popular U.S. fiction has come full circle, that the kind of situations and characterizations that ten years ago were the province of left-wing intellectuals have become the substance of skillful popular writing. In Land I Have Chosen the anti-Nazi propaganda is the basis of popular appeal; the story Southampton is highbrow, subtle, and in effect smuggled into the book...
...author a $1,000 prize offered by the Atlantic Monthly for an article on freedom of the press. Victor over nearly 700 competitors, mostly working newsmen, the author is Robert Lasch, 37, Rhodes Scholar and Nieman Fellow, now one of four editorial writers for Marshall Field's left-wing Chicago Sun. Like most modern social critics, Writer Lasch virtually absolves "the people" of moral responsibility for social ills, assigns that responsibility almost exclusively to the leaders. At times his essay suggests a private's-eye view of the generals. But every experienced journalist knows that the Lasch critique...
Bristles, Blood and Bones. There is Philip Danforth Armour, burnsided, frock-coated and wing-collared, an impassioned believer in human perfectibility who is supposed to have said: "I like to turn bristles, blood, bones and the insides and outsides of pigs and bullocks into revenue now, for I can turn the revenue into these boys and girls [who were supported by Armour funds], and they will go on forever." There is curly-haired, German-Jewish Nelson Morris, who got his start by investing his savings in pigs whose legs had been broken in transit and who is supposed to have...
...Boston the 119th annual meeting of the American Unitarian Association (62,-000 communicants) elected Ohio's Senator Harold H. Burton as moderator to succeed Dr. Philip C. Nash, president of the University of the City of Toledo. An expected row between the right and left wing Unitarians never came off. The issue: leftist Unitarians want Unitarianism declared a non-Christian religion with the emphasis placed on humanitarianism...
Harvard's lineup found Thomas as fullback, Bud Rowell and Frank Holcomb at wing, Johnny Loos and Captain Ausnit at the three-quarter position, Jon Pritchard playing his final game at stand-off half. Commander Keith Kear of the New Zealand Royal Navy and the Law School as scrum half, and Bob Kennedy, Al Weisberg, Fred Garfield, Frank Jessop, Don Cummings, Don Hodge, Rog Willson, and Robin Worthington in the forward positions...