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...task is undertaken in the current issue of High Fidelity magazine by Frederic Grunfeld, who runs the Mutual Broadcasting System's Musical Almanac. Drawing heavily on the work of the eminent British social scientist and author, Stephen Potter (Gamesmanship, Lifemanship, etc.), Grunfeld develops in a series of case histories some basic principles of Diskmanship. Writes he: "A single record, properly selected and bestowed, can serve to establish beyond question the authority of the giver for a year or longer," and persuade the other fellow that he is hopelessly tin-eared. Some successful Diskmen...
Drama, as usual, was television's old reliable. CBS's Studio One production of An Almanac of Liberty, inspired by Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas' book of essays on America's heritage, pitted a group of townspeople against a stranger with "radical" ideas. Frightened when they discover that time is standing still as a result of their mistreatment of the stranger, a few try to gang up on the intruder only to find that time moves backward with each infringement of another man's rights. At length, they realize that...
...ALMANAC OF LIBERTY, by William O. Douglas (409 pp.; Doubleday; $5.50), is remarkable chiefly because it takes one of the year's pleasantest publishing ideas and turns it into a bore. Almanac-browsing is a lost pleasure to most Americans, and this attempt to revive it looks promising-until the reader actually starts to browse. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, prolific writer about his rambles in the Far East, has struck off 366 little devotional essays on American liberty for the "common man's" year (which seems always to be leap year). Author Douglas almost immediately slogs...
...Additions. CQ, which started with 20 papers, grew with its reputation for accuracy. Soon, in addition to their weekly reports, the Poynters started putting out special news stories and features and an annual almanac. As CQ grew, the Poynters shuttled back and forth to Florida, where Nelson is now publisher of the St. Petersburg Times. With his new CQ publisher at work, Poynter will be able to spend more time on his Florida daily. Says Poynter: "Our mission is to try to bring factual order out of the controversy about Congress. There is so much emotion involved that one side...
...that of these, seven out of ten are "young men and women in their 20s." Meanwhile, the teachers seem to be doing their bit: the Japan Teachers Union sponsored the violently anti-American movie Hiroshima, and the union of the Yamaguchi Prefecture recently published a student-and-teacher almanac with a "thought for each day" on "American imperialism...