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...NAOMI NOVIK A British naval captain boards a French warship (this being the Napoleonic era) and discovers a dragon's egg in the hold. This does not surprise him. In his reality, dragons are in common use by the military; popular breeds include Winchesters and Regal Coppers. But dragons bond at birth, and when the egg hatches at sea, our hero, Captain Laurence, must become the dragon's rider--which distresses him, since, as everyone knows, "no woman of sense and character would deliberately engage her affections on an aviator." Laurence's induction into the strange, insular world of 19th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 5 Great New Books | 3/5/2006 | See Source »

...CORNELL 10 CORNELL, 10-9 (OT) at Schoellkopf Field, Ithaca, N.Y. Harvard 5 4 0 - 9 Cornell 3 6 1 - 10 G:Harvard--Asano 2, Christino 2, Parker 2, Austin, Hussey, Corkery; Cornell--Miles 5, Chong 2, McCorry, Perman, Reynolds. A:Cornell--Chong. S:Harvard--Donelan 6; Cornell--Novik 16, Giancola...

Author: By Amy E. Ooten, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Lax Falls in OT, 10-9 | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

Chock-full of a sense of social significance is energetic little Morris Novik, 38, who in his three years as headman at WNYC has made it the best-run of the 30-odd non-commercial stations in the land. A onetime rabbinical student, Novik used to be an ardent "Yipsel" (Young Socialist Leaguer), trained for his present job by serving as social director of an International Ladies Garment Workers camp in Pennsylvania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Significant WNYC | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

During his three years with WNYC, ex-Yipsel Novik has been consistently successful with educational and musical shows. He has also been rather consistently at odds with some of the less socially-minded of New York City's 7,000,000 inhabitants and taxpayers. On WNYC...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Significant WNYC | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

Last week while the City Council's investigation weaseled along, Novik was busy with WNYC's second annual ten-day musical festival, which includes music by everyone from Metropolitan soloists to Tommy Dorsey and his band, all serving gratis. He and Mayor LaGuardia thought that one up last year to make everybody feel better in bad times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Significant WNYC | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

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