Word: normans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficult and fine distinctions drawn between Oxford and Cambridge by Norman St. John-Stevas [TIME, Sept. 24] are for the most part accurate . . . However, I suspect that the good Cantabrigoxonian had little to do with English letters or natural science while rusticating or ruminating at either place, for he would not have said that Oxford has the edge in poetry, nor would he have failed to recognize the distinction of Cambridge in the field of science. Can Oxford possibly match Spenser, Marlowe, Milton, Dryden, Wordsworth, Byron, Coleridge . . . or Bacon, Harvey, Darwin...
...NORMAN F. D'EVELYN
...canny British dress manufacturer, Leslie Berker, and his designer, Norman Hartnell-who styles the royal family-invaded the land of haute couture in its softest spot, the middle-class Frenchwoman who can't afford the steep price of Parisian designers and usually makes her own clothes or wrangles with wrangly little dressmakers. French firms that manufacture readymade medium-priced dresses were caught with their patterns down...
...also indicted Mrs. Camille DeRose, a white woman with a record of arrests, who was a former owner of the building and seems to have no direct connection with the case; Norman Silverman, a furrier, for handing out Communist pamphlets after the riots, and Erwin Konovsky, Cicero's police chief...
...Latin America. For the key post of ambassador in Caracas, President Truman last week nominated Fletcher Warren, 55, onetime ambassador to Nicaragua and Paraguay, who has served for the past year as director of the State Department's Office of South American Affairs. Like his predecessor, the veteran Norman Armour, Warren is a career diplomat and an old Latin America hand. He should be at home among the 30,000 Texans now living and working in oil-minded Venezuela. Six feet seven inches tall, he was born in Wolfe City, Texas, worked his way through the state university...