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...fantastic story involves a timid map-maker, Charles Butterworth, who comes home one day to find his whole family engaged in war work of one kind or another. Trying to keep in step, he gets pushed around mercilessly until he conceives the idea of trapping the Jap fleet with a phoney map of Shangri-La. After an interlude in a Jap internment camp done with extremely poor taste, the map is found to be genuine; but Papa saves the day by informing the U. S. forces of some nearby islands that would rise above water on the next...
More than 60% of the King James version of the Bible was lifted word for word from earlier translations, reported Charles C. Butterworth in The Literary Lineage of the King James Bible (University of Pennsylvania Press; $3.50). The sources: 19% from the Puritan influenced Geneva version of 1560; 18% from William Tyndale (d. 1536); 13% from Miles Coverdale's versions ; 4% each from the Wycliffe and Bishops' Bibles; 3% from other versions, including the Rheims-Douay Catholic Bible...
...flourishing business of quizzing the U. S. populace has few practitioners more indefatigable than Parks Johnson & Wal lace Butterworth, who serve as interlocutors for the CBS show, Vox Pop. Together they have wandered up & down the land paying citizens $1 to answer such queries as: How many feathers on the average hen?* What was our President's name 30 years ago?† Should a gentleman remove his hat before striking a lady?**Along with this pert questionnaire, Vox Pop offers its listeners interviews with cinema stars, politicos, "typical Americans," statistics on the number of one-armed paper hangers, wooden...
...Hyde Park and Elwood, Ind., in honor of the Presidential candidates. Unfortunately, after the Elwood show was set to go, Newschief Paul White of CBS, to which Vox Pop transferred in 1939, forbade any mention of Wendell Willkie, on the ground that his name was controversial. Obediently Interlocutors Johnson & Butterworth discussed with the citizens of Elwood the Tomato Festival then taking place. This went on until an old gaffer cackled: "Why don't you ask about the most important thing in Elwood-Wendell Willkie? Man and boy I've known him 50 years. I've even...
Last week Dr. Julian E. Butterworth, director of Cornell's Graduate School of Education, announced a compromise between these extremes. Next fall Cornell will start a five-year training course for high-school teachers. It will stress cultural education, but students will also spend one-fifth of their time learning to understand teaching and children. Most radical advance: tests to weed out unfit teachers at intervals, before they graduate. Students will be required not only to pass their courses but also to give evidence of mental fitness, emotional stability, poise, ability to use the English language properly...