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...Nation) restore the grandeur of such unvisited landmarks of English fiction as Humphrey Clinker, Middlemarch, Heart of Midlothian, Edwin Drood. They reduce to scale some modern writers-Wells, Bennett, D. H. Lawrence-while adding to the dimensions of several continental Europeans and two Americans: Walt Whitman and Stephen Crane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Reader | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

...usual red-painted steel beams are not being used in the Library, Phillips said, because the columns will be encased in cement. From the new yantage point, near the site of the old Dudley gate, the amateur supervisors will be able to watch the 30-ton crane hoisting the beams into position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prospect for Lamont Construction Connoisseurs Improves, Rivets Out | 10/2/1947 | See Source »

...amateur superintendents can even get an idea of how high the library will be when completed by looking at the 80-foot boom of the crane which, in an upright position, approximates the height of the building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prospect for Lamont Construction Connoisseurs Improves, Rivets Out | 10/2/1947 | See Source »

Fred Ordway and Bob Crane, both class of '49, may own Esmeralda II, but they probably don't know that their black and blue Chevrolet leads a night life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Esmerelda, a Car with Spirit, Carries On | 7/25/1947 | See Source »

...ringer for Ichabod Crane. From a slouchy, 6 ft. 5 in. frame, Ewell Blackwell's arms dangled almost to his knees. When he wound up and pitched sidearm, he was so awkward that another player remarked: "He looks like he's falling out of a tree." Last week the awkward one, up to the majors for his second year (after three seasons in the Army), shuffled out to the mound in Cincinnati to face the league-leading Boston Braves in his first night game of the season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Like Falling Out of a Tree | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

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