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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the men scheduled to speak to the course members this summer, are Edward Weeks, editor of the Atlantic Monthly; George P. Brockway, president of W. W. Norton Company, Inc.; August Fruge, director of the University of California Press; Margaret Smith, fiction editor of Mademoiselle; Maurice Dolbier, Book Reviewer and columnist on the New York Herald-Tribune; Donald Kingsley, president of the Hous Magazine Institute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 50 Editors and Writers to Speak In Publishing Course at Radcliffe | 7/24/1958 | See Source »

Those who were most offended by the trend in Ghana were not British ex-colonial types, who might be expected to say I-told-you-so, but liberals and leftists. One of them, Socialist M.P. Fenner Brockway, an honor guest at Ghana's independence celebrations, last week let out an anguished cry of betrayal: "What evil genius has gained the ear of the Prime Minister of Ghana? His friends in Britain are shocked to find Ghana adopting some of the worst practices of colonial rule. This is not Kwame Nkrumah. I beg him to free himself of his advisers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GHANA: White Eminence | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

Dean Thomas P. Brockway says, "There is no doubt that there are students here who are working in one or more of their courses because they want a favorable report at midterm and termend. But I should say that these reports can be ends in themselves to a much lesser degree than the old A, B, C, or 70% and better or worse...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: The Grading System: Its Defects Are Many | 3/12/1957 | See Source »

...ALICE J. BROCKWAY Bakersfield, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 29, 1954 | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

Leading Labor's attack was a pale, impassioned Bevanite named Archibald Fenner Brockway, son of an African missionary. Staring across the House at Lyttelton, he invoked Oliver Cromwell's terrible injunction to the Long Parliament: "You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!" Though the House was dissatisfied with Lyttelton, these strong words went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Decline or Fall? | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

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