Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since last June hundreds of letters have come in from alumni, many of them favoring a simple object of beauty or a broken column in the Yard which can be seen every day by undergraduates and remembered as nothing but a war memorial. Some of the younger alumni propose endowed scholarships for study abroad, to promote international understanding and help prevent another...
...place as a teacher, decided to try gold-mining instead. The school talked him out of it-by making him headmaster. This week, after 45 years in his first and only job, Harry Peters was ready to call it a day, and hand University School on to another, younger Yaleman: Harold Cruikshank...
...Younger brother of Taft School's Headmaster Paul Cruikshank...
World War II's boldest plot-that-failed has been reported, but never as fully as in Germany's Underground. Its preliminaries, principals and political aims are now described by Manhattan Lawyer Allen W. Dulles (younger brother of State Department Adviser John Foster Dulles), who was the wartime OSS chief in Switzerland. Obviously Dulles thought the assassination plot of great importance; the OSS in Switzerland had learned of it through "secret channels" long before it came off, repeatedly advised Washington of its importance. But Allied headquarters dismissed the plot as trifling and, says Dulles, "the plotters received...
William Sansom is one of the morning stars among younger English prose writers. He has a gift for magic glitter that at times approaches that of one of his current literary enthusiasms, the young Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas (TIME, Dec. 2). He also has the more durable gold of an original imagination. When both are kept in hand, he can write a story with all the finely selected observation (though not the humanity) of Flaubert. The Cleaner's Story, first in this book, is like that...