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...petition was the brainchild of Marlene Hanna, a student at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. Working with two volunteers from the Harvard chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, Hanna collected the 400 signatures in two days of canvassing at B. U. and Harvard...
Like its Japanese parent, the new PHP is similar in size to Reader's Digest. But in other ways it resembles no journal of the Western world-with the possible exception of Benjamin Franklin's old brainchild, Poor Richard's Almanac. Devoid of ads, news, politics religion, sex, its 108 pages brim with simplistic sermonettes, warm remembrances and fervent hopes. Texts, which seldom run over 500 words, are sprinkled with bland heads ("One-Man Production" "Dynamics for Survival"), beguiling sketches and bylines of the famous and the unknown...
However, I believe it is universally agreed and accepted that the Op-Ed page was the brainchild of World Executive Editor Herbert Bayard Swope, who placed the likes of Heywood Broun, Franklin P. Adams, Alec Woollcott, Laurence Stallings, Harry Hansen, Samuel Chotzinoff and many other greats on that page, including Cartoonist Rollin Kirby...
...Faces of Love, the movie's demure title, is the brainchild of bored Boris Adrian, a film maker in the tradition of Chaplin and Fellini whose previous efforts have exhausted the topics of Death, Infinity and the origin of Time. "What I want to know," asks Boris, "is why are stag films always so ridiculous? Suppose the film were made under studio conditions - feature-length, color, beautiful actors, great lighting. How would it look then...
Before any such laws are passed, Jones must build a few additional safeguards into his brainchild. How, for example, can the tester prevent an inebriated driver from cheating by calling on a friend or parking-lot attendant for help...