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From his own library he resurrected his college texts, Handbook of Engineering Fundamentals and Mathematical Tables from Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, KOL came across with an Encyclopaedia Britannica and a world atlas. Occasionally an adult volunteer would drop in to help with the answers. By last week Bob was getting more than 200 phone calls a night, and KOL was planning to hire an assistant and provide extra telephone lines...
...ballyhoo for once told the truth; when Actor Chaney died in 1930. the film colony mourned an enigma. Reticent and secretive, Chaney, son of two deaf-mutes, shrouded his personality, veiled his past as adroitly as he camouflaged his own features under masterful disguises (he was the Encyclopaedia Britannica's expert on movie makeup). Chaney enjoyed the respect of his own associates in the film industry, but he avoided both publicity and public places...
...steel mill said that five nearby saloons had to shut down after it opened a good cafeteria, while the Prudential Insurance Co. found that nutritional deficiencies among its office help-especially young girl workers, who leaned heavily on soda-and-cruller lunches-have almost disappeared. Chicago's Encyclopaedia Britannica reported that the output of its office force has increased 300% in the past five years, with only a 60% increase in employees, attributes a good part of the gain to its cafeteria program. Other corporations find that a company dining room helps executives keep abreast of what is going...
Within minutes, NBC was being bombarded with calls and wires, mostly from doctors who protested that Bloomgarden had also given a noun, "coccyx," instead of the adjective "coccygeal." Either both contestants were right or both were wrong. Editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica admitted to an inconsistency in the quiz answers that they had approved for the show. Barry and Co-Producer Dan Enright put heads together, agreed that both contestants had missed, and called for a rematch-again at $3,500 a point-next week (Mon. 9 p.m. E.D.T.). Although Bloomgarden must relinquish claim on last week...
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc. Wilmette...