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Forgotten by one generation, this rollicking ballad of 1869 was revived for the next. In 1901 Charles Frohman produced Playwright Clyde Fitch's Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines. Female lead was pretty, 21-year-old Ethel Barrymore in her first starring role. The characters whistled and sang the old ditty but audiences blithely believed that both the dandified captain and his "Horse Marines" were something cooked up for their special entertainment...
...what do you think of "Thucydides's method of art. Mr. Appleworth?" There was a silence, so I thought. Harold nudged me, and I opened my eyes: "Oh you were speaking to me? What is what?" Professor Bell stared and twisted his mouth as I once saw one of Clyde Beatty's lions do. "I asked you what ideas you had on the method of Thucydides as compared to that of Herodotus. "Why it was it was different." "How?" The word exploded in the classroom. The professor followed with a violent gust from his nose. Something nasty prompted Harold...
Center's Merle Crowell, NBC's Vice President Frank Earl Mason, Yale's Professor James Harvey Rogers, Columbia University's Professors Robert Staughton Lynd, Lyman Bryson, Joseph Daniel McGoldrick, Clyde. Raymond Miller. Back & forth across the council table flies weighty talk of big U. S. problems about which the public forms opinions-Capital & Labor, the New Deal, John L. Lewis, Education. This small group might easily be the seat of a sinister super-government were it not that no two members of the Council on Public Opinion completely agree on anything very important...
Last week, for instance, Publicist Bernays and Publicist Miller were belaboring each other as enthusiastically and skilfully as they knew how. What they were battling over was Clyde Miller's Institute for Propaganda Analysis (TIME, Oct. 11), which has been sending monthly bulletins to educators, publicists, editors and others, telling how to detect propaganda, denned as "expression of opinion or action deliberately designed to influence opinions or actions of others with reference to predetermined private ends." Edward Bernays sent to his own mailing list, covering the same groups, a broadside "to dissipate any public hope for important accomplishment...
...scores of schools and his 4,000 subscribers Clyde Miller thereupon sent last week what was intended to be a crushing reply-the Institute's first major work, an outline of a course of study for high-school students. Only contemporary propagandist specifically named in this somewhat general booklet was none other than Edward Bernays: "Hired by [Western Union] to boost its business," said the booklet "Edward L. Bernays suggested that delivery boys, paging the recipient of a telegram . . . say, 'Western Union...