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...another occasion, Senator William Benton, then a vice president of the University of Chicago, had lunch with Wood to try to persuade him to turn over Sears' Encyclopaedia Britannica (which Sears bought in 1920) to the university as a philanthropic gesture. When Wood didn't say anything, Benton thought his persistence had annoyed the general. After lunch, as he was getting into his car, Wood drew back and said: "All right." (The gift has since earned some $2,000,000 in royalties for the university...
...unstable Ulster aristocrat whose favorite costume (pink hunting coat and riding boots) made him a figure in Parliament. Foreign Secretary from 1812 to 1822, he stiffened the Grand Alliance that defeated Napoleon. At the Congress of Vienna, which laid the foundations for a hundred years of Pax Britannica, he put on a classic display of balance-of-power diplomacy: to counter the threat of Russo-Prussian hegemony in Europe, Castlereagh threw Britain's weight on the side of the former enemy, France. Britons blamed Castlereagh for the economic distress following the Napoleonic wars, the neglected veterans of Waterloo...
...Fund for Adult Education ($3,000,000), headed by C. Scott Fletcher, former president of Encyclopedia Britannica Films, which will support nonacademic projects outside the school system -educational movies, radio and TV programs, community discussion groups. The fund's purpose, as defined by Hoffman: "[To] assist persons to develop a satisfactory personal philosophy and sense of values ... to grow in ability to analyze problems and arrive at thoughtful conclusions...
Those people whose bookcases are just seven thirty-seconds of an inch too long for the complete Encyclopedia Britannica can now fill up the space with a closely-printed, unbound little book-put out by the Un-American Activities Committee. This book lists in 156 unattractive pages all the organizations ever cited as Communist or Communist front by any or all of nine "official Government agencies--on Federal, State, and municipal levels...
...onetime literary editor on the Philadelphia Public Ledger, Walter Yust, 56, is used to deadlines, and his deadlines never stop coming. Every year, he puts out a whole new printing of the Britannica. He must decide which articles he thinks need rewriting, and what new subjects need be added...