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...words filed from the Philadelphia convention last week were laid end to end, they would equal (in quantity, if not in information) about four volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Never before had a Republican convention been described by so many newsmen (1,600) in so many words (5,098,372).* Press, radio, newsreels and television not only outnumbered but outranked the delegates...
...keep it afloat Assistant Manager Charles F. Moberly Bell, onetime Cairo correspondent, teamed up with two high-pressure Yankee salesmen, Horace Hooper and William Jackson. They put the Times into the book business, with special editions of Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Times Book Club. The Times won back its reputation chiefly by its foreign coverage, which it could ill afford...
...Under a $200,000 grant from TIME Inc. and $15,000 from the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...Encyclopaedia Britannica Book of the Year . . . shows the following eight schools as having been founded in the year indicated: 1) Harvard-1636, 2) William & Mary-1693, 3) Yale-1701, 4) University of Pennsylvania-1740, 5) Princeton-1746, 6) Washington & Lee-1749, 7) Columbia-1754, 8) Brown-1764. This puzzles me. . . . RICHARD H. MILLER Washington...
...work, not of newspapermen, but of educators, philosophers, lawyers, a poet, a banker. They, and a handful of assistants, had met 17 times, heard 283 witnesses, reflected and argued as the Commission on Freedom of the Press. They were financed by grants from Time Inc. ($200,000) and Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. ($15,000). But their conclusions were strictly their...