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Agatha Christie promptly begged to differ, reported that "we still have some tricks to play," cooed: "My own experience is that detective stories are being read more than ever." Ellery Queen held a contradictory mirror up to Father Knox's words, reassured himself: "Readers get more wary, but writers get more clever." People would always read mysteries, declared Leslie Ford and David Frome in unison. "Monsignor Knox is talking through his hat," cried Rex Stout, "-if he wears...
...anything else in them as a regrettable defection from duty. But Patterson recognized that readers wanted something that was part almanac, shopping guide, magazine and variety show as well as news bulletin board. Like U.S. radio, the press dealt in news, entertainment and commercials; the amount of each might differ, but the ingredients were the same. Patterson's mixture called for health hints and horoscopes, patterns and etiquette, advice for the lovelorn and tips on the horses-and compelling, habit-forming comics. Most of the strips that helped his lusty tabloid grow were named by him (Dick Tracy, Orphan...
...when a gamma ray hits the nucleus of a spermatozoon or ovum (the reproductive cells which unite to form a new individual), it may damage one of the thousands of "genes" which carry hereditary characteristics from one generation to the next. This may produce a "mutation." The child may differ slightly or radically from its parents, or the difference may lie concealed until it is brought out by inbreeding in a later generation...
...college presidents as it might be. He looks on education as "a social process." as something very much a part of the community. In Emersonian fashion, he inveighs against "the recluse who has almost ceased to be a man, and whose labors in the library or the laboratory differ from stamp collecting only by the courtesy of a name." Says he: "Personally, I like the word 'relevance.' ... To my mind a scholar's activities should have relevance to the immediate future of our civilization...
...Weber is a zealous scholar, hunting and trapping the smallest details. He is also a zealous critic, going well out of his way to lambaste certain "modern" writers (T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, et al.) whose beliefs and techniques differ from those of Hardy...