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Research Committee head is Ralph Flanders, who heads Vermont's tool-building Jones & Lamson Co. Chief Research Adviser is Harvard's top-drawer Economist Sumner Slichter, famed for his conventional ideas on Government spending (as contrasted with Harvard's other renowned economist, Spender Alvin Hansen...
...scholarly Europeans and Americans had a marvelous time. For Mount Holyoke, long a home of ultra-serious-minded education, was trying earnestly to take the place of Burgundy's 12th-Century Cistercian abbey of Pontigny, until 1939 a sort of Chautauqua for Europe's top-drawer intellectuals...
...floor is covered with candy wrappers, bottle tops, memos he writes to himself and periodically dumps out of his pockets. ("We sweep out, the joint on Thursday, but last Thursday we missed.") The war bonds he has purchased are tucked between the keys of an old cash register, the drawer of which is filled with small camera parts, screws and whatever. But all his customers admire his business principles. The most Luhnar of them...
Billed as a "Republican Revival" (which struck many a GOPster as libelous), the meeting was engineered by smooth, stocky Chicago lawyer William J. Grace, chairman of an organization now called the Citizens' U.S.A. Committee (formerly the Citizens' Keep America Out of War Committee). But Illinois' top-drawer Republicans, although mainly anti-Willkie, shunned the Mural Room, looked prim and pained. The Great Revival was off to a weak start...
Each chapter is written by a top-drawer expert (Kirtley Mather, Charles Franklin Brooks, Bart Jan Bok, Charles A. Federer Jr., Ralph Waldo Gerard and others), in chatty, informal style, simply illustrated, and at high-school level. No textbook, Science from Shipboard cuts ruthlessly across academic boundaries between the sciences, starts each topic with a direct human experience. Sample (by Harvard's Mather): "Like every ocean traveler you will be thrilled by each glimpse of land. . . . The most important idea that should be in your mind as you look at any shore is the fundamental fact that...