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Ronald H. Winston '63, of Quincy House and New York City, will receive the American Rocket Society's annual undergraduate research award at a luncheon in New York tomorrow...
...Winston, an English major, will receive the $1,000 award jointly with Franklin J. Kosdon of M.I.T. for their invention of a solid rocket propellent. The project was part of a long-range plan to construct and launch a probe rocket intended to carry an instrument package thirty or forty miles into the atmosphere...
...these distinguished early contributors, the Review has added many more. Henry Adams, Winston Churchill, Max Beerbohm, Leon Trotsky. Robert Frost, Andre Gide, Thomas Wolfe, Thomas Mann, Rebecca West, Aldous Huxley and Dr. James Bryant Conant, former president of Harvard, have all appeared in the Review. The Review's range of interest is wide, running all the way from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter ("Law and Order") to the late Humorist Robert Benchley ("The Typical New Yorker"). The Review was one of the first U.S. publications outside of little poetry magazines to publish the singular verses of French Poet...
...Winston Churchill thereupon endorsed Monnet's French passport personally, sent him to Washington to help coordinate Anglo-American war-supply planning. It was Monnet who conceived the idea of Lend-Lease. And it was Monnet who coined President Roosevelt's famous fire side-chat slogan: "We must be the great arsenal of democracy...
...Instead of thumbnail essays, they run to single phrases. To illustrate new shades of meaning, they include 200,000 quotations that draw on sources as diverse as Variety, Lingerie Merchandising, and TIME (probably the most frequently quoted magazine), along with "pungent, lively remarks" by 14,000 modern notables from Winston Churchill to Mickey Spillane. The old edition brushed off goof as "a ridiculous, stupid person." Now. in amplification, Dwight Eisenhower is quoted as complaining that someone "made a goof." Elizabeth Taylor broadens sick by speaking of "a room smelling rather of sick." Ethel Merman says, "Two shows a day drain...