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...Partner William Benton is now making persuasive presentations for the University of Chicago, its Encyclopedia Britannica, its radio Round Table, and for the Committee for Economic Development
...first U.S. educational encyclopedia in 31 years is the new 9O2-page, 4½-lb. Encyclopedia of Modern Education (The Philosophical Library, $10), edited by Harry N. Rivlin of New York City's Queens College. Its articles from Abnormality to Yen, James Yang-ch'u (TIME, Nov. 22) cover just about everything of current academic interest, generally in English plain enough for parents who want to know what teachers...
Training on Trains. In his younger days in London, Hitch was an insatiable first-nighter, a sort of rolling encyclopedia of stage lore. Another consuming interest was transportation. He could tell any Thamesside character who would listen the tonnage, type and country of every craft on the Thames. He loves to ride on trains, and two of his best pictures (The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes} have thrill ing train sequences...
Sweet Encyclopedist. Jimmy is probably the hardest-working millionaire extant. He eats little (two raw eggs for breakfast), sleeps little (about five hours), reads widely (keeps an encyclopedia in the bathroom). Jackson and Roth never leave him alone; all three continually fuss over each other's colds, headaches. Jimmy goes to the cemetery every Sunday-in New York, to visit his father's grave; in Holly wood, to decorate his wife...
...Pocket Books, which at 25? apiece sold 5,000,000 copies in 1940, 10,000,000 in 1941, 20,000,000 in 1942, sold 38,000,000 in 1943. Even the ponderous university presses reported sales up 20-30%; in one month (October), sales of the one-volume Columbia Encyclopedia jumped...