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...worked at Belsen and Oswiecim concentration camps, now being tried under a warrant from His Britannic Majesty by a British military court. From a plain wooden witness box in the center of the converted gymnasium which served as courtroom, day after day, witness after witness added to the compendium of horror...
Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid the chances are that we may be relying on a scientific truth the error of which will be recognized in a few years' time...
...time after graduation, Gould earned his living by reviewing books. "Now," he says, "book reviewing is done by machines," and he considers himself a victim of technological unemployment. For many years he has devoted himself to the epic "Oral History," which he describes as a compendium, seemingly endless, of everything he has seen himself or been told first-hand in all parts of the world...
...Georgia-between times "beating up the headquarters of all the good old planters and farmers . . . regardless of roads horrid and suns torrid." He sold Paradise Lost, The Vicar of Wakefield, Robinson Crusoe, Cook's Voyages, the works of Voltaire, Tom Paine and Bunyan and Bard's Compendium of Midwifery, which he touted as "the grand American Aristotle...
...World and America was conceived and co-authored by TIME Radio Programs Department's director, Frank Callan Norris, a TIME Inc. staffman ever since he left Princeton in 1929, managing editor of the radio March of Time since 1941. A redhaired, wry, witty compendium of universal fact and theory, Norris is also a not able Aberdeen Angus cattle raiser and barbershop tenor. Co-author of The World and America is Folklorist Carl Carmer (Listen for a Lonesome Drum), a specialist in local American history ever since he left a northern professorship to teach at the University of Alabama...