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Philosopher Mortimer J. Adler of the University of Chicago, 47, is a bounding dynamo of a man who is apt to have, "in my more paranoiac moments," rather extravagant visions. "Imagine Carnegie Hall," says he, "filled with all the great intellectual leaders of the world today. I don't think that you could get them all to agree on a single point, much less a series of ideas. But you could perhaps get them to agree that there are certain valid questions modern man should...
Though some professors howled against the scheme, the course on important books was begun. In class, John Erskine was his old self, drawing students into flashing arguments (he once reduced Mortimer Adler, now an eminent University of Chicago professor and an important-books man himself, to tears). He urged them on to "nobler loves and nobler cares." As the course grew, younger teachers-Poet Mark Van Doren, Philosopher Irwin Edman, Historian Jacques Barzun, Critic Lionel Trilling and Philosopher Mortimer Adler -came to help...
...grown since Erskine left it to devote himself to writing after his novel, The Private Life of Helen of Troy, became a bestseller. It had been extended, via Columbia's humanities course, to all Columbia College students. The idea had traveled to the University of Chicago (with Adler), to St. Johns College in Annapolis, Md. and to scores of other colleges. It had spread to thousands of classes for adults in The Great Books. It was a plan of study that had helped lift U.S. higher education up from the patchwork of specialties and superficials it had become...
John Garfield is the skillful jockey whose well-earned reputation for riding a crooked mile keeps him off U.S. racetracks. To his young motherless son (Orley Lindgren), who tags along from one continental track to another, the jockey is a hero. After double-crossing Italian Gambler Luther Adler by winning a race he was supposed to throw, Garfield flees to Paris, takes up with a chanteuse (Micheline Prelle) and buys his own horse to ride. He looks like a cinch to win the Big Race until vengeful Gambler Adler demands that he lose it or pay off with his life...
...different raffies were held. One was conducted by David M. Hersey, and offered a corsage to be given to the winner's date at the Jubilee. The other was staged by candidates James B. Adler and Stuart H. Trott, who awarded a jar of gum-drops...