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Sirs: In thumbing through my Britannica . . .I come across the following...
...property by rioters, revolutionaries, or plain bandits and pirates. Supplementing this strong arm was the practice of extraterritoriality : the setting up of courts to administer British law so that entrepreneurs might be spared the more extreme abuses of the local legal apparatus. Law backed by force made the Pax Britannica the assurance of peace and fair play prerequisite to any long-term investment...
...night last week Carroll Alcott closed his newscast with the remark: "And now you can listen to Gregor Ziemer, the commentator who looks at the world through a spyglass and the Encyclopedia Britannica...
Worth Two Cents. Credit for improving revision methods goes to Ohio-born, frog-voiced Elkin Harrison Powell, 54, president of Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. since 1934, and Editor Yust, a patient, diligent stringbean of a Pennsylvanian who joined the staff in 1930. In 1939, Yust started a revision schedule under which every article would be scrutinized at least twice a decade. As helpers in this job he has University of Chicago graduate students, paid in the form of $1,000 scholarships...
Articles are written by experts, who get a scholar's rate of 2? a word. Included with the Britannica essays of Macaulay, Scott and Stevenson are eminent moderns: Henry Ford (Mass Production), Albert Einstein (Space-Time), Julian Sorell Huxley (Courtship of Animals), George Bernard Shaw-who accepted $68.40 for 3,420 words on Socialism...