Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young Scotsman who had been a professor at the struggling experimental school in Northampton, Mass, was naturally delighted that his invention had proved such a success. But when he sat down to write his mother the news, he was not thinking of his own fame or fortune. "Now," wrote Alexander Graham Bell, "we shall have money enough to teach speech to little deaf children." As a matter of fact, had he not been trying to find an instrument to help such children, he might never have started experimenting with the telephone in the first place...
...travel, but also covers a wide range of subjects with a mixture of Gallic verve and American nerve, e.g., it recently sent a staffer on his first trip to Africa to bring back a picture story on "How to Hunt Big Game," commissioned a French explorer to write his story of an Amazon trip, "I Starved with the World's Most Primitive Tribe." The magazine's lavish color pages, planned by Art Editor Albert Gilou, sometimes achieve the lustrous clarity of a Flemish painting, are equaled by only one other publication in Europe: Switzerland's sophisticated...
...almost nobody until Bandleader Isham Jones recorded it in a haunting lento. Jones's violin soloist "played it pretty," says Hoagy, "with feeling-to bring out the melody-and pretty soon it began to make a noise on Broadway." A rising lyricist named Mitchell Parish was commissioned to write lyrics, and Stardust became history...
PIGGYBACK SHIPPING will get a big boost from the Office of Defense Mobilization. ODM has set an expansion goal of 25 "roll-on, roll-off" oceangoing vessels to be used to ferry either trailer trucks or railroad freight cars, will grant fast tax write-offs to firms building the ships until Dec. 31, 1956. Three shipping companies have already signed up to build five ships worth $14.5 million...
Miss Taunton, when contacted last night in Newport, R.L., could not deny that she had contracted this fall to write for a College undergraduate a 60-page thesis on the topic: "The role of Michael Bakunin in the Russian Revolutionary Movement of the Nineteenth Century"; that she had met with the undergraduate in Widener and given him a preliminary bibliography and 20 pages of typed book-notes on the subject; and that she had accepted for these services $7--approximately one-third of the $20 total cost of the thesis. Like Miss Taunton's business letters, the bibliography and notes...