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...abroad. As dark and demoniac as Pnin is gentle and sunlit, this novel has in the past year become a sotto voce scandal on two continents. Lolita, published in English by France's Olympia Press, gives the pornography-v.-art debate its most combustible tinder since Judge Woolsey handed down his famed decision on Ulysses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pnin & Pan | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

Back to the 19th Century? The Congregationalist president of Amherst College, Charles Woolsey Cole, takes a more hopeful view of the phenomenon-at least at college level. In Harper's he writes: "Youth at present is almost completely monogamous in a thoroughly established fashion, and it is aggressively sure that its customs and ways are right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Going Steady | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

...Jorgensen (2:07.7) placed third behind Indiana's Bill Woolsey (2:04.7) and Iowa State's Jim McKevitt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tired Varsity Swim Team Scores Fifteen Points During NCAA Meet | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

Captain Jim Jorgensen (2:06.9) should improve over his fourth place finish last year in the 220. Only Indiana's Bill Woolsey (2:05.9) has posted a faster time this year. Gerald Tanable, also of Indiana, is on a par with Jorgensen...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Swimming Team Will Enter NCAA Meet | 3/29/1956 | See Source »

...Hear This. In Council Bluffs, Iowa, alarmed because the air-raid sirens of Omaha, just across the Missouri River, do not provide full coverage, Civil Defense Chairman Ernest Woolsey announced his own plans for alerting everyone by 1) sending up a 7,000-ft. column of red smoke, 2) exploding an aerial fireworks bomb, 3) releasing helium-filled balloons, and 4) spraying Council Bluffs with a mixture of powdered sugar and peppermint, so that the warning could be both smelled and tasted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 2, 1955 | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

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