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...initial aim of summer cramming for the neophyte, as Author Richard Armour cautions, should be to "learn something-and be able to hold forth at the dinner table about it." Armour adds sagely: "If you want to score points, you've got to get the conversation around to something you've read, and prove you're up on the subject." No one scores points by babbling about a novel that everyone else has forgotten for two years. For that matter, it is safe to skip all Major Novelists, since everyone else is presumed to have read them...
...demands must be granted under the Constitution. Only a handful of Southerners cling to the illusion that they can sell segregation to the rest of the country, and hardly anyone still believes in the use of violence, except a few backwoods sheriffs and chili-parlor hoodlums. Police Commissioner Claude Armour of Memphis, a city with an excellent integration record, puts it this way: "I had to face the decision whether we were to have fear, strife and bloodshed, or whether we were to enforce the law. I decided we would enforce the law and have peace, and that...
Bell Helicopter. When the television scare came, Wasserman reacted early. He established Revue Productions, MCA's TV producing subdivision, which has now become Universal Television. He felt that TV should go to film and helped prove it with Armour's Stars Over Hollywood (1950-51), one of TV's first filmed series. When independent movie producers led the flight from Hollywood that nearly killed off the industry there, Wasserman sensed that the advantages abroad of cheap labor and low taxes would only be temporary; so he stayed in Hollywood, bought Universal Pictures, and began to build...
...ARMS AND ARMOUR OF THE WESTERN WORLD by Bruno Thomas and others...
...Pritchett in his introduction to this elegantly tailored travel piece. But his offensive eye is piercing. In Madrid, the light has "the radiance of enamel: in the hot months it is pure fire, refined to the incandescence of a furnace, and it is like the gleam of armour in the cold winter." He is fascinated by the Turks' capacity for almost trancelike relaxation. "No one," he says, "sits quite so relaxedlly, expertly, beatifically as a Turk; he sits with every inch of his body; his very face sits." In Iran, Pritchett isolates the country's cruelty...