Word: dickson
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Whodunit Author John Dickson Carr (alias Carter Dickson), master of the murder in a locked room, took deadly aim at Whodunit Writer Raymond (The Big Sleep) Chandler, who specializes in hard-boiled detectives and publicly hoots at his clue-scattering colleagues (TIME, April 24). In a New York Times review of Chandler's The Simple Art of Murder, Carr wrote: "If, to some restraint, he could add the fatigue of construction and clues . . . then one day he may write a good novel...
...employment of persons whose commitments or obligations to any organization, Communist or other, prejudice impartial scholarship and the free pursuit of truth." On March 23 a poll of the faculty revealed that it had voted 1,025 to 268 against employing Communists on the faculty. Regents chairman Edward A. Dickson stated: "The result is of national significance. It is the first time that the faculty of any great university has gone formally on record as sup- porting a policy of outlawing subversive teachers and influences...
Ordeal for Hire. In San Antonio, Charles M. Dickson withdrew as a candidate for the state legislature, explained that his health would not permit him to go through a "stump-speaking, barbecue-eating, beer-drinking and baby-kissing campaign...
Indiana: George M. Dickson, Jr., '22; 803 Security Trust Bldg., Indianapolis...
...Hopkins, of Cambridge, and a student in the Buckingham School, won the Departmental Award in History, and award given on the basis of competitive exams. Honorable mention went to Lois Ann Dickson, of Portland, Me. and Portland High School, Lily Emmet, of New York City and Joan Brearley School, and Martha Roland, of Drexel Hills, Pa., and the Agnes Irwin School. Over 59 students took the history examinations...