Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Proust on the Subway. The Voice listener is apt to hear a great many wide-eyed, breathless stories about New York. Arab listeners were recently offered (Allah only knows why) a broadcast on Central Park which furnished the following startling information: "If you drive in through one of the streets that cross the park from west to east, or vice versa, you will probably go down a number of circular roads, and as the roads wind, your car will follow, and in half an hour or so you are back at the same point from which you started...
...latter generally regret it. You are apt to boot yourself--hard--in the seat of the pants, if you go into the field without every intention of going on to graduate school either to teach or practice psychiatry...
Charles Townsend Copeland is 90 today. The letters that appear in this issue recollect Copey's era. They are fitting tributes, apt words to wish a Happy Birthday...
...executive vice president of Smith, Kline & French Laboratories (drugs), Businessman Francis Boyer has to deal with and hire scientists. Last week he told a Philadelphia convention of the American Chemical Society how he tries to decide whether a scientific researcher is apt to make real discoveries...
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...