Word: isherwood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Legion, whose members now have an estimated 600,000 sons in the armed services, has changed its mind. It appropriated $250,000 for "an intelligent, aggressive campaign to inform eligible veterans of the advantages offered by the American Legion," put at the head of the drive James E. Isherwood of Waynesburg, Pa. who is being groomed as next year's National Commander...
...Maisky did not let them off with a tribute. He duly presented the U.S.S.R.'s second highest decoration, the Order of Lenin, to Wing Commander Henry Neville Gynes Ramsbottom-Isherwood and three other R.A.F. pilots who had flown in Russia. But the Ambassador also had a message from Moscow. It was a message urgent with appeal, warning, a sense of crisis...
...past three years the Dramatic Club, sole remaining remnant of the one-time famous Harvard drama department, has produced plenty of flop shows. The officers deserted their policy of trying out experiments for one of attracting the public with lighter, frothier material than Auden, Isherwood, and T, S. Eliot. Unfortunately, the compromise policy has fallen flat and the H. D. C. has lost the prestige of its old daring innovations without gaining any compensatory lucre at the box-office...
...been the major factor in keeping the Japanese at bay, while other writers have shown Chiang Kai-shek as gradually changing from the dictatorial leader of semi-fascist Blue Shirts to a fatuous boy scout pottering around in Chungking with that New Life Movement which caused W.H.Auden and Christopher Isherwood so many suppressed giggles (Journey to a War: TIME...
...editing a magazine by simply depending on his family connections. Among his contributors and contributors-to-be are Father Mann, Uncle Heinrich Mann (a novelist too), Sister Erika Mann, Erika's British poet husband Wystan Hugh Auden, Poet Auden's British novelist friend, Christopher William Bradshaw-Isherwood...