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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moved by an addiction to science fiction, former Boston Architect Frederick Winsor, 56, tried his hand at a new literary form: "space rhymes" for children and adults. The results, some of which appear in the current Atlantic, constitute a somewhat garbled tribute to the complexities of life, in or out of the nursery, in a mid-20th-century universe. A sample from The Space Child's Mother Goose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mother Goose in Space | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...self-analytical autobiography The Trouble with Cinderella; by wife No. 7, onetime Cinemactress Doris Dowling, 32; after nearly four years of marriage, one child; in Las Vegas, Nev. Among Shaw's better-known former wives: Cinemactresses Lana Turner and Ava Gardner (Nos. 3, 5), Novelist Kathleen (Forever Amber) Winsor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 30, 1956 | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

...wake me at 4 a.m.!" In Washington onetime Price Administrator Paul A. Porter, 51, now a capital lawyer and being jettisoned by his wife (since 1930), confirmed rumors that he is entranced with thrice-wed (to All-America Footballer Robert Herwig, Bandleader Artie Shaw, Attorney Arnold Krakower) Novelist Kathleen Winsor, 37, best remembered for her sex-clogged 1944 opus about naughty 17th century England, Forever Amber. Forever contending that she herself is no Amber, Kathleen allowed that she will marry Porter in May. Said Author Winsor: "I plan to really keep house when we settle down . . . I've been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 2, 1956 | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

...plays, Hello Out There, is also the clearest and most disciplined of the three. Saroyan this time managed to say something perceptive about loneliness by means of the story of a man unjustly jailed for rape, and he does it without resorting to tricks or metaphysics. Tony Winsor, the accused, and Margaret S. Groome, a shy girl who falls in love with him, are quite satisfactory in their roles. They might be even better, however, if they could suppress a tendency to shout. An additional and unnecessary note of wildness is added by the direction if Michael Harwood, who made...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Evening With Saroyan | 12/9/1955 | See Source »

...matter what technical changes or administrative developments take place under Buck, he will still face the problem which Justin Winsor formulated 80 years ago, "How, on limited funds, to give as many people as possible as many books as possible with as little trouble as possible...

Author: By Christopher S. Jeneks, | Title: The Management of 120 Miles of Books | 4/15/1955 | See Source »

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