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...suppose I am the 16,000th letter writer to point out that Dr. Freud's spectacles on cover are shown with the temple frames inverted, or does the artist imply a minor Freudiosyncracy in the way the doctor wore his glasses...
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...warning to the overeager, Classicist Jotham Johnson of New York University posted a special memo in the classics department last week. "The sordid rumor has been promulgated," he wrote, "that March 15, 1956 is the 2,000th anniversary of those Ides of March on which CJ. Caesar was assassinated. This results from an inaccurate or hasty computation, for March 15, 44 B.C. to March 15, 1 B.C. equals only 43 years; March 15, 1 B.C. to March 15, 1 A.D. equals one year. (There was no zero year.) March 15, 1 A.D. to March 15, 1956 makes a total, then...
Though it was not his intention, Johnson's calculations struck directly at N.Y.U.'s great rival, Columbia University. There, library officials had already set up a lively exhibition commemorating the 2,000th year of Julius Caesar's death. Now, it seemed, Columbia was commemorating a year too soon. University classicists promptly split on what to do. Scottish Gilbert Highet ("I'm a classicist, not a mathematician") was for calling the whole thing off, but bearded Classicist Moses Hadas favored the exhibition. Meanwhile the university news office, citing the Columbia Encyclopedia, informed reporters that "because of poor...
...automakers, the recent cutbacks did not prevent them from turning out their 1,000,000th new motor vehicle of 1956 this week, only three days behind the 1955 pace. At Chrysler President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert announced that in Chrysler's 1955 comeback net sales totaled $3.5 billion, 67% better than 1954, with earnings of $100 million, more than 400% better than 1954. Said Colbert: "1956 will be highly competitive, but we believe it will be a good market...