Word: chicago
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Thus equipped, the ringleaders phoned appointed contacts in U.S. cities-Chicago, Detroit, Portland (Ore.), Philadelphia, Harrisburg (Pa.), Minneapolis-fed them the winning answers. Many of the participants were on the fringes of the entertainment business; Dingman was the only one with a newspaper connection. Often, time zones worked for the swindle; e.g., the phony London bank got its answers at least two hours before U.S. newspapers on the West Coast...
Surrounded by comics, crossword puzzles, cheesecake, dog stories and other newspaper fare, the new column in the Chicago Sun-Times looked as out of place as Plato on a comic-book rack. Even the questions from readers were formidable: What is truth? What is justice? What is love? The columnist's name and title were enough to send Smilin' Jack fans into a tailspin: Dr. Mortimer J. Adler, director of the Institute of Philosophical Research. Yet the column has pulled 150 letters a week since it began appearing last October. This month the Sun-Times will syndicate Philosopher...
...usable), has already accumulated a three-year supply of A's. These get published in his weekly column, and win a set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica's Great Books (54 volumes, value $300), which Adler co-edited in the 1940s with Robert Hutchins. then the University of Chicago's chancellor...
...give far too little practice teaching in actual classrooms. Ticking off these familiar failings this week, the Ford Foundation's President Henry Heald, sometime (1952-56) chancellor of New York University and an old teacher himself (during the '30s he was a professor of civil engineering at Chicago's Armour Institute of Technology), announced an impressive new foundation gift aimed at achieving "a breakthrough in teacher education.'' The donation: $9,161,210, to be divided among nine colleges and universities...
...Ford grants, for the most part, will allow expansion of topflight teacher-training programs already under way. Recipients: Barnard, $70,000; Brown, $1,047,000; Chicago, $2,400,000; California's Claremont Graduate School, $425,000; Duke, $294,210; George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Tenn., $600,000; Harvard, $2,800,000; Stanford, $900,000; Wisconsin...