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...going to Brno. We shook hands all round and off I went in a 1927 Oldsmobile. There's also a lot of nonsense about press freedom. On a local news-stand on in a hightype kavarna (coffeehouse) you can buy "or read everything from Pravda to the Readers Digest, including, if you have the time, all the English continental editions and the good, gray Time magazine. The Herald Tribune, despite some emotional tiralies against CRS by Josef Alsop,"is as available as RudePravo, a local daily. Czecli papers do not ordinarily go in for strong criticism of Russia, but that...
...hotel suite for Mangabeira, wife Esther and their two grown children, told him that the rent was $90 a month and paid the difference. He has since repaid them. Within six months, Mangabeira had picked up enough English to get a job doing translations for the Reader's Digest. Not so apt with languages was wife Esther, who sometimes had to order honey at Manhattan delicatessens by imitating bees...
Died. John Bassett Moore, 86, No. 1 U.S. authority on international law, first U.S. member of the World Court (1921-28); after long illness; in Manhattan. Moore, whose eight-volume Digest of International Law is the bible of the field, was no One-Wonder, argued back in 1933 that the "new" internationalism's efforts to guarantee peace merely assured the worldwide scope of future wars...
...Michigan's Survey Research Center under Francis Likert and at Chicago's National Opinion Research Center (formerly the Donver Poll) are the climax of the preliminary gestures of Cantril and his associates for the past decade. After Gallup's first national poll in 1936 proved that the Literary Digest was wrong, the Cantril concept of small sampling polls as against mass surveys, now utterly beyond question, began to take shape in the development of the spot-check method...
...does accomplish the difficult task of getting into a child's mind and making the child stay human. "Apprentice" fails in describing children. The little boy involved is repeatedly and annoyingly referred to as "the cube-shaped boy," a bit of unexplained whimsy that is not easy to digest...