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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...very mode of expression of the unnamed spokesman for the American Psychological Association who views as "dismal" the acceptance of a teaching position which is open only to those who are able to deny that they are traitors to the U.S. [TIME, Sept. 18] bespeaks the smug sort of pseudo-intellectual among whom radicalism is considered fashionable...
...York's Harper brothers-James, John, Joseph Wesley and Fletcher -had made a name for themselves* in the book-publishing business, still had some idle press time on their hands. To keep presses and employees profitably busy they started Harper's New Monthly Magazine, a sort of undigested Reader's Digest of fiction of the day, bought the galley proofs of the current works of Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope and other English greats, and ran them as serials. Overnight, Harper's became a success. Literary Americans became such fans of the magazine, not only for its fiction...
...better from the point of view of the U. S. would be some sort of United Nations trusteeship. Unfortunately such a plan would be extremely difficult to push past the Communist objections in the U.N.--especially if these objections were supported by a military attack across the strait...
...call out, "I ran across a book you might like . . . Just happen to have it with me," or "Hello there, Smithers, I wonder if you could help me on a little problem." "Before I knew it," said a would-be lawyer who had been subjected to this sort of thing, "I was majoring in chemistry...
...eagle), spends a couple of months in Florida where he has a small house in Coral Gables, summers at his Vermont farm, which he shares with the Morrison family: Harvard Lecturer (and poet) Theodore Morrison* and his wife Kathleen. Both at Cambridge and Ripton, "K," serves as a sort of combined secretary, manager and friend, handles Frost's correspondence, types his poems, fends off unwanted callers, fusses over his diet and clothes, tries to see that he gets to bed at a reasonable hour...