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Many besides Thayer called the poem their brainchild. The most persistent claim was that of George Whitefield D'Vys. Although his story changed in a few times, one version had D'Yys writing the verse in Cambridge Common with his mother. As he finished the poem, a runway horse forced them to leave. D'Yys returned to find his poem stolen...
...class is the brainchild of Kennedy School Faculty member Mark H. Moore, Guggenheim professors of criminal justice, and Ames Professor of Law Philip B. Heymann, who left for Washington to become deputy attorney general before he got a chance to teach...
...students into museum and art life. In the 1930s and 40s, the Museum offered a course in materials and techniques, in which the students used to paint directly on the walls of the Fogg in the tradition of true fresco, according to Marjorie B. Cohn, curator of prints. The brainchild of former museum director Edward Forbes, it was colloquially known as the "Eggs and Plaster" course. Today, you can poke around in closets and corners of the Fogg and still find these creative student originals on the walls...
This one-of-a-kind cover story is the brainchild of William McWhirter, TIME's chief Midwest business correspondent. McWhirter came up with the idea of a combined article on GM, Ford and Chrysler early this year, but it took months of back-and-forth negotiations before all three were persuaded to cooperate. Actually, he says, "once one agreed, the others not only followed suit but competed with each other for the kind of access we were given...
...spate of new books attacking Freud and his brainchild psychoanalysis for a generous array of errors, duplicities, fudged evidence and scientific howlers...