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...Manhattan white-haired Dr, Frederick Albert Cook, 71, listing himself as an anthropologist, physician, author, journalist and lecturer, filed a damage suit for $125,000 against the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Writer Jeanette Mirsky, the Viking Press and Houghton Mifflin Co. for "discrediting" his claim to the "discovery" of the North Pole in 1908. Generally considered the master impostor of his time, jailed in 1925-30 for using the mails to defraud in connection with oil-stock swindling, Dr. Cook declared: "Before I die I must clear my good name...
Castrati were employed not only in the papal choir, but also in the Italian theatre, because the Church forbade appearance of women in both places. Force of public opinion drove the castrati from the Italian stage about 1800. But, in the indignant words of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th Edition), "they remained the musical glory and moral shame of the papal choir till the accession of Pope Leo XIII." Last great castrato was Professor Alessandro Moreschi, who entered the papal choir in 1883 at the age of 25, remained 30 years...
...started out so to distort the facts of the greatest critical period of American history as to prove right wrong and wrong right." Calling the roll of historians who have written of Reconstruction, he brings charges of omission or bias against almost all, including the Beards, Claude Bowers, the Encyclopaedia Britannica and eleven school textbooks. In his bibliography Author Du Bois is even more exclusive, listing 28 standard works as anti-Negro, twelve as propaganda for the South, 25 as "Fair to Indifferent on the Negro," only 13 by historians who "have studied the history of Negroes and write sympathetically...
...husky corn-fed Texan named Anderson Baten retired to his Dallas cottage, opened the first volume of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and began reading about "AABENRAA, a town of Denmark." Two years later, without having skipped a word between, he came to "ZYGOTE, the biological term for the fertilized egg," closed the last volume, went prayerfully to bed. Next morning he arose at 6 a. m., took a five-mile walk with his wife. After breakfast he sat down at his desk in the centre of a horseshoe of book-stacked tables. When Anderson Baten left his study sometime between...
...different in kind from other able men; only more brilliant and ruthless than they, and with a preference for what H. G. Wells has styled the cloacal. In that field he is a past-master." Aldous Huxley "is still baffled by the number of entries in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. . . . He has a greater capacity for wisdom than any encyclopaedia-stuffed man of this era; and may yet lead his generation, and the younger generation, into a state of grace out of which great things will come...