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Sherman Billingsley, suave, sleepy-eyed host of Manhattan's Stork Club, accepted congratulations from cafe society as the author of a 6,000-word history of nightclubs, to be printed in the next edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica-which is noticing nightclubs for the first time in 177 years of publication. Pocketing his $120 (the scholar's rate of 2? a word) Author Billingsley lost no time about getting in a professional plug: "Nightclubs are here to stay. Curfews and taxes can't kill them . . . even the Britannica has come to realize...
Died. Sir Leo George Chiozza Money, 74, short, swart, startling British economist, onetime M.P. and Encyclopedia Britannica editor; in Bramley, Surrey. Born in Italy as plain Leo Chiozza, he attained a British title, originated Allied shipping strategy against U-boats in World War I. Sir Leo, in letters-to-the-editors, defended Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Japan as "frustrated and deprived nations...
Eastman now becomes part of the University's Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc., which has also acquired from Western Electric the $3,000,000 ERPI Classroom Films. All told, Britannica can distribute about 500 films, graded from primary schools to teachers' colleges.* This makes Britannica the biggest thing in its field. And it agrees with film men who think it is small potatoes compared to postwar possibilities...
...Center (headed by an old Hutchins colleague at Yale and Chicago, Donald Slesinger) has been working in the field. If such producers can overcome the hurdle of distribution problems, which defeated many earlier educational-film projects, they may lead in postwar developments. And the likeliest leader, in person, is Britannica's President Edward E. Shumaker...
...fanatic believer in educational films. Under him, since 1935, ERPI has been carefully studying school curriculums, shaping its film tools to fit. ERPI, while a leader in its field, has thus far failed to electrify education. But wartime experiences are making education much more subject to sparking. As Britannica's head, Shumaker will have a new chance to pioneer. And if the educational potentialities of films are realized, this stiff-necked Pennsylvania Dutchman will get much of the credit...