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...head of the Western Conference. His duties kept him traveling, and so did his horses; he therefore sold his Seattle home and began living in hotel rooms. Under Brewster, the West Coast Teamsters have given heavily to charity, sponsored a classical-music program on television, with Seattle Symphony Conductor Milton Katims presiding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: FROM GOON TO GENT | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

...hands of carpenters"). After his fashion, he gave the U.S. some rare admiration-"a great promiscuous grave into which tumble, and then disintegrate, all that was formerly race, class or nationhood." In 1951, long failing of sight, he became blind, but he kept up his furious writing: "Milton had his daughters, I have my Dictaphone." Poet T. S. Eliot called him "the most fascinating personality of our time," combining "the thought of the modern and the energy of the cave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 18, 1957 | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...committee of Law School alumni has begun a drive for $1,250,000 for the construction of two buildings for the School's International Legal Studies program, according to Milton Katz '27, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, the director of the program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Group Plans Drive to Aid Legal Center | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

Odyssey (Sun. 4 p.m., CBS). "The Wonderful World of Comics," discussed by Al (Li'l Abner) Capp, Walt (Pogo) Kelly, Milton (Steve Canyon) Caniff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Mar. 11, 1957 | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

Thus the gin-bashing cronies of Milton Hall, hero of this brilliant first novel, might have summarized his brief and dreadful career as a British colonial officer in Malaya. The story is set in the fictional district of Telebu. State of Mandore. a few hours by car from Singapore. To the usual tropical discomforts is added the barbed wire which confines the town within its perpetual state of siege; to the usual jungle noises is added the rumble of British 25-pounders as dispirited troops try to nose out Communist terrorists in the hills of the "vast sighing terrible peninsula...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Unquiet Englishman | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

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