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Surrounded by comics, crossword puzzles, cheesecake, dog stories and other newspaper fare, the new column in the Chicago Sun-Times looked as out of place as Plato on a comic-book rack. Even the questions from readers were formidable: What is truth? What is justice? What is love? The columnist's name and title were enough to send Smilin' Jack fans into a tailspin: Dr. Mortimer J. Adler, director of the Institute of Philosophical Research. Yet the column has pulled 150 letters a week since it began appearing last October. This month the Sun-Times will syndicate Philosopher...
...Adler, the column in the Sun-Times is "a part of the general education function I am trying to perform in my lectures, Great Book series, and seminars. Admittedly, the column may be for a minority, but it's a substantial minority." Sun-Times Executive Editor Lawrence S. Fanning, who calls Adler "a kind of poor man's Plato," is as enthusiastic as Adler. Says he: "If we can move a few people away from the comic strips and into this kind of material, it seems to me that the paper is performing one of its essential functions...
Lowering thermometers and other instruments through the hole to the hot (about 150° C.) mantle should solve many mysteries about the earth's structure and origin. A continuous core sample through the sediments of the ocean floor may provide what AMSOCers call "the most fabulous history book of all time"-an uninterrupted record of the earth's development for 2 billion years. And somewhere below there may still be traces of the face of the earth as it was when it began...
Wiechert uses modern characters to illustrate his old allegory and presses home his message with intense sincerity. His weakness is a mystified view of history that exaggerates both the stability of the past and the uniqueness of the present. His prose is filled with sentimental, turgid solemnity. But the book will please those who like their religious literature to be a little lower than the angels and a little higher than Lloyd Douglas...
...story concrete mansion in Fuente Grove, Trinidad, Mystic Ganesh Ramsumair, B.A., sat in the lavatory pondering his future. When he plucked nervously at the toilet paper, a cunning mechanism tripped, and a music box tinkled out Yankee Doodle Dandy. In that moment of revelation, the book that was to secure Ganesh's fame was born. He thought of the title later: Profitable Evacuation...