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After starting in homely Midwest idiom ("I would sure appreciate appearing on your program"), the letter from St. Louis minced no words: "I have a remarkable memory . . . My knowledge is fabulous . . . amazing . . . monumental . . . I am a human almanac of information." The producers of the $64,000 Challenge felt skeptical about the letter and doubtful when, after repeated applications, they finally saw the writer, a $70-a-week supply clerk who quit school at 13. But by last week Theodore Nadler, 47, had lived up to his own billing, piled up $64,000 on the show, and was simultaneously taking...
...Charlie also developed a passion for reading a dictionary as living literature. "When I look up a word," he says, "I start to browse, and next thing I know, I've read four or five pages." (Now he bones up on the Rand McNally Atlas and the World Almanac before his sessions on the air.) One weekend in his teens, he picked up the Bible and read it through. He feels, however, that he never read in earnest until he decided to try for a Ph.D. in English literature. He systematically read his way through the Columbia library stacks...
...will be tomorrow's customers and tourists. But the whole thing is getting out of hand. Says William H. P. Smith of the Boston chamber: "We're just swamped with this mail from kids. Most of the information they ask for they could find in any World Almanac, sometimes even in a phone book." "Some of our teachers," says Executive Director Sherman Voorhees of the Pittsburgh chamber, "are delinquent." Instead of learning how to use the encyclopedia, "children are being taught the easy way out." Adds a Pittsburgh businessman: "If teachers insist that their students bother companies...
Franklin earned the world's respect for himself and his young country by the simple process of being his commonsensical self. And common sense is the quality that shines in all the Franklin works, from Poor Richard's early-to-bed, early-to-rise almanac platitudes to his witty letters. Yet Franklin's "dear country" needs, in the 20th century, more than common sense-and there is more than that to be found in Franklin's life and writings. It took more than common sense-namely, guts-to face the wigs of 18th-century Europe...
...accuracy of the CRIMSON's annual predictions for the new year never fails to cheer those journalists who suffer from the January reminder of New Year spirits. While holding our heads, we once more gather our crystal ball, tea leaves, Almanac, astrological reports, and bottle of Geneva spirits in order to announce the coming events...