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Married. Robert Maynard Hutchins, 50, onetime boy prodigy of the educational world, who became president of the University of Chicago at 30 and chancellor (a specially created post) in 1945; and Vesta Sutton Orlick, 31, his secretary at Encyclopedia Britannica, where he heads the board of editors; each for the second time; in Washington Heights...
Died. Sir John Alexander Hammerton, 78, British journalist, author (In the Track of R. L. Stevenson, 1909; With Northcliffe in Fleet Street, 1932) and editor of many a large-scale reference work (Punch Library of Humour, Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopedia, Harmsworth History of the World), who offered a ?1,000,000 reward in 1940 to any American who would bring Hitler "alive or still breathing" to his office within 30 days; in London...
...alert editors of Moscow's Pravda, however, were not to be taken in by any such fairy tale. Historical materialism does not recognize Genesis; no less an authority than the Big Soviet Encyclopedia calls the story of the flood a "myth" which "up until .the 19th Century had done great harm to the sciences." Snorted Pravda last week: "It is quite enough to look at a map to understand the real meaning of the biblical amusements of these Anglo-American imperialists. The true purposes of such an expedition are as far from archeology as Sykes is from great-grandfather...
...been firing away merrily at the 80th Congress' labor policy ever since election day, finally met the heavy hitters in the opposition lineup when it took its campaign promises into committee a fortnight ago. The hearings have generated a great deal of heat in dispute over the two encyclopedia labor laws enacted in the past. But there are only two questions now completely adaptable to regulation on a national scale: The security of "national emergency" industries and the closed shop...
...readers want literary criticism in addition to encyclopedia-style knowledge, the History will prove less satisfying. Too often it discusses writers as examples of "trends" or "forces" rather than judging them by the pleasure they can still yield to readers. What the History lacks most is individuality. Either because many academic writers employ the same rather soggy prose, or because the editors have pressed the essays into one stylistic mold, most of them read as if written by one man: a learned but conventional professor. (One happy exception: the chapter on "American Language," in which the gay, strong hand...