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...squat of the hips and a throaty gurgle, Hope Hampton, a film star of the '20s who found the fountain of youth, accepted a silver loving cup at Manhattan's Camelot Club with the inscription, "Outstanding Twist Personality of 1962" - an ephemeral accolade authenticated by the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which, in its 1962 Book of the Year, illustrates the twist with a Hopeful view...
...article in the April 20 issue implies that the Great Books Foundation was started by Encyclopaedia Britannica and that there is some connection between the two organizations through Britannica's publication The Great Books of the Western World. The Great Books Foundation was organized as an independent, nonprofit educational corporation in 1947, many years before Britannica's Great Books set was even published. We have no affiliation with Britannica except historically through association with Messrs. Hutchins and Adler, who did the pioneer work in starting Great Books seminars for adults when they were at the University of Chicago...
...volume sets, which include works by 74 authors ranging from Homer to Freud. Last year alone, 51,083 Great Books sets were sold for $22 million, a 27% increase over 1960. As a division of Publisher (and ex-Connecticut Senator) William Benton's Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., Great Books keeps mum about its profits, but Britannica executives concede that it earns enough to pay some of its regional sales managers $100,000 a year...
WILLIAM BENTON Publisher & Chairman Encyclopaedia Britannica New York City Sir: I see by your Education section that Admiral Rickover is at it again. It amazes me that an individual whose lifetime career has been the military can become an expert on education. As for a nationalized curriculum, I hardly believe a Kansas farm boy needs the same material that a New York City youth requires. The primary goal of U.S. education is to develop American citizens. In this it has not failed...
...publicly denies it, West Coast Industrialist Norton Simon, who got control of McCall Corp. in 1956, is reported to have thoroughly cased the prospect of buying the company. Other interested parties: ex-Senator William Benton, who made an early fortune in advertising and a later, larger one in the Encyclopaedia Britannica; and a Wall Street group, represented by the investment house of Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co., which now holds some 600,000 shares, and is hungry for more...