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...land a Babbitt's righteous punch on the super-civilized nose of the author . . . The novel has a tone which says that, if you cannot swallow its exquisitely distilled sewage with a good appetite, then you'd better go back where you belong and read Elbert Hubbard's Scrapbook...
Delaware: Conservative Republican "Honest John" Williams, 54, beat down the substantial threat of ex-Governor Elbert N. Carvel, 48, to win a third term...
...Attention. The high school films Combustion and Chlorine focus narrowly on their subjects, show only a pair of hands-those of Phillips Academy (Andover) Chemistry Master Elbert Weaver -performing experiments. Explanations are amplified by animated drawings showing molecular action. Weaver's scripts are tough enough to keep students out of that double-feature daze, call for as much attention as a classroom lecture. The films present no chemical formulae and do not show a periodic table-these can be handled better by textbooks and classroom charts. The Manufacturing Chemists' Association, which commissioned the films (cost: $20,000 each...
Since last fall, eight carefully selected public and private secondary schools-have been teaching a revolutionary physics course designed by M.I.T.'s prestigious Physical Science Study Committee. Last week, talking to meetings of scientists and educators around the nation. Committee Executive Director Dr. Elbert P. Little reported first results of the course. Said he: "The reaction has been so good that it scares us-we're almost afraid to believe...
...Dale E. (for Elbert) Sharp, 54, executive vice president since 1955 of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co., was named president and a director to succeed William L. Kleitz, who died Nov. 19. A graduate of Washburn University of Topeka (A.B., 1924) and New York University (M.B.A., 1928), Kansas-born Dale Sharp started in banking with Manhattan's old National Bank of Commerce, later absorbed by Guaranty Trust, taught economics at Bucknell University and finance at New York University before joining Guaranty Trust in 1931, was named vice president in charge of Guaranty's Midwest banking...