Word: panjandrum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...others. In time, Henderson became head of the mathematics department at the University of North Carolina, one of the top historians of the South, and a biographer of George Bernard Shaw. He mastered so many fields of learning that G.B.S. called him "the Grand Panjandrum." "He is the only man in the world," added Yale's late William Lyon Phelps, "who can talk professionally on equal terms with Einstein and . . . Shaw...
Sesquipedalian Words. Last week, U.S. readers could find out a good deal more about the panjandrum. A group of scholars, critics and historians had written sketches and tributes for a book about him (Archibald Henderson: The New Crichton, edited by Samuel Stevens Hood; Beechhurst Press; $5). Among the contributors were the late Historian Charles A. Beard, Novelist Betty Smith, and the university's ex-president (now U.S. Senator), Frank Porter Graham. Each took a different phase of the Henderson chronicle...
Frank Lloyd Wright, venerable panjandrum of modern U.S. architecture, finally (at 79) got grudging recognition from the august American Institute of Architects (of which he is not a member): their 16th Gold Medal Award in 42 years. Apparently, it had not been unanimous. Blurted the Westchester (N.Y.) chapter: "His achievements do not entitle him to join the company of such men as McKim [Boston Public Library], Post [Wisconsin State Capitol], Bacon [Lincoln Memorial], Goodhue [Nebraska State Capitol], Cret [Washington's Federal Reserve Building], and Sullivan [Chicago's Stock Exchange...
...illustrations show that art for children reached its peak in 19th Century England. Walt Disney himself would need a lot of film to match the action in Randolph Caldecott's Panjandrum Picture Book (published in 1885). And Kate Greenaway's grave little watercolors for Under the Window and Marigold Garden are still as modern-to children's eyes-as they were when Critic John Ruskin devoted a lecture at Oxford to "The Place of Kate Greenaway in Modern...
...snazzy Swiss hotel suite, the Ago Khan, 69, spiritual panjandrum of millions of Moslems, fell seriously ill with an internal hemorrhage, had a transfusion, at week's end showed some improvement...