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Professor Urey's Chicago outburst re. the Rosenberg trial points up the deplorable effect produced by reporting the opinions of "celebrities" as news. the false expertise of the celebrity testimonial has a powerful influence on the public. For example, a current dustcloth advertisement offers recommendations, in part, from two playwrights wives, two female television personalities, and the wife of a Vermont senator. Such testimonials entice buyers: admen don't spend funds for nothing. Just why praise from this clump of wives should be the gospel of the casual dustcloth-needing shopper I do not know. Nor do I know...
...Urey's. The majority of renders tend to think of the celebrity--sadly enough, the scientist especially--as an "expert." The scientist has the stereotype of being mind incarnate, wandering through a mental ionosphere. A Urey testimonial, considering this stereotype, is worth even more in selling power than the dustcloth blurb. This become much truer when such charges as Urey made are headlined or front paged. It would seem to me that the views of intelligent amateurs, of all intelligent amateurs, belong in the Letters to the Editor column, where the authority of news, with its implications of fact, does...
...dress. As a beautiful member of the distinguished Soong family, she cavorted to feasts, rode in jodhpurs. But as a girl with a rigid conscience, she joined the Y.W.C.A. and the Child Labor Commission. She had a horror of untidiness: an English friend describes how she impatiently snatched a dustcloth from a shiftless amah one day and dusted a whole room, exclaiming against dirt...
...York as a member of industrial boards and as the State's industrial commissioner. She had been responsible for progressive State legislation. She had swept up many dirty corners. First thing she did when she walked into her musty old office in Washington was to call for a dustcloth...
...start one song simply, with: "I got a plenty o' nuthin' and nuthin's plenty for me." As the tempo mounted and the crowd joined in, chairs were to rock faster, one old black woman was to take to sharpening her carving-knife, another to whisking her dustcloth up & down like a crazy baton...