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...will suffer brain fag identifying the Michaelson family. There is Daddy (Art Carney), a Blunt Ox with a heart as big as his wallet ("I got in plastics early"). There is Mom (Phyllis Thaxter), a sugar-coated Sphinx full of smiling inner wisdom. There is Daughter Mollie (Elizabeth Ashley), a cute little Bunny hopping from her West Coast home to an Eastern college, and into the sights of the great white hunters from Harvard, Princeton and Yale...
...flickered into life, it has attracted an ever-enlarging audience. The number of knob twisters dwarfs the circulation lists of even the largest magazine. In a speech before magazine promotion men at New York's Sherry-Netherland Hotel, Manhattan Adman Fairfax M. Cone (Foote. Cone & Belding) had some blunt words for magazines tempted to play the numbers game against the one-eyed monster of the marketplace. Cone's advice...
...This blunt statement comes from Philip H. Phenix, 46, professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Most U.S. schools firmly believe that they do provide the values he demands. On the premise that happy men create a healthy society, they teach and beseech children to use their abilities. By thus stressing self-realization, the schools in theory promote "the greatest good to the greatest number." It is Philosopher Phenix's jarring argument that all this is morally shallow-that U.S. schools in fact promote selfishness...
...played for the Washington Senators, Cincinnati Reds and Chicago White Sox; of a stroke; in Cincinnati. Deafened when two years old by spinal meningitis, Hoy did not learn to speak till his wife taught him at 36, retained a lifelong preference for sign language, and in the blunt innocence of a bygone age was affectionately dubbed "Dummy" by his teammates...
Part of the recent widespread effort of historians to compile source material on the great 18th century Americans,* the two Hamilton volumes are primarily intended for the use of other historians, and like other such collections are choked with trivia. But Hamilton's pen is so sharp and blunt by turn that the letters, notes and official papers, assembled by Editors Syrett and Cooke, contain surprisingly lively material for the nonhistorian, and certain sections read like an epistolary novel...