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...good-will ambassador by a rubber heel and sole company at more than $10,000 a year. One of the show's questions even attracted the attention and objections of an art connoisseur (who was overruled by a covey of other art critics and the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...success of The Mouse was instant and immense. The League of Nations endorsed him. Madame Tussaud put him in her famous wax museum. The Encyclopaedia Britannica devoted a separate article to the little fellow. He was the Nizam of Hyderabad's favorite movie star. Jan Christian Smuts, Avila Camacho, Mackenzie King declared in his favor. Franklin D. Roosevelt never missed a Mickey cartoon. Mussolini adored him; Hitler hated him. The Russians called him a proletarian symbol; however, the line changed in time, and Mickey is now a "warmonger...
Possessors of such diverse items as three different versions of the New York Times Index and numerous bibliographic of bibliographics, the reference librarians hardly know where to start when space limitations demand weeding. Thinking themselves safe in disposing of the Dictionary of Islam on adding the ten-volume Encyclopaedia of Islam, they were appalled when, within an hour, a long-haired scholar came to the desk inquiring after the dictionary. The problem of arranging the variegated collection has proven even thornier. In trying to place the reference works on history, language, and geography in a logical order, the staff could...
...from the blue." Whenever a panelist suggests a letter not represented in the phrase, he goes "down," and $5 is forwarded to the viewer who suggested the phrase. If all four panelists go down, the viewer wins $25 and that granddaddy of quiz prizes, "a full set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...already off on his next great project, which, if he succeeds, will make the Syntopicon look like an exam pony. Adler wants to summarize all the knowledge of the Western world in one vast work, comparable to Aquinas' 13th century Summa or Diderot's 18th century Encyclopaedia. His aim: to help end the Babel of Western civilization, in which specialists in various fields not only disagree but cannot even argue with each other in the same language. He does not want to reach conclusions, but simply clear the decks for "some future philosophic genius" by summing...