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...that anyone can understand a classic. Last spring he and Columbia Broadcasting System's Adult Education Board decided to try to explain the world's great books to the U. S. radio audience. In a program called Invitation to Learning, each week three literary critics held a half-hour ad lib discussion of a classic before a microphone. Among their topics: The U. S. Constitution, Plato's Republic, Flaubert's Madame Bovary...
...Sinbad, Miss Mack decided to round up a group of untrained small fry, to teach by her own methods. Among others, she has taught the Mauch twins and Billy Halop, the Dead End Kid. Miss Mack's performers are paid $5 for three hours' rehearsal and a half-hour...
...Amesbury cottage with the harebells in the garden room. "Sometimes, recalling his hairbreadth escapes in the anti-slavery days . . . the old man would leap from his seat. . . ." There was Julia Ward Howe. In the electric days of 1861, she had written The Battle Hymn of the Republic in one half-hour of genius that never returned again. Now she "rumble-tumbled" through the Newport season, communing with Kant and Spinoza, organizing her "picnics with a purpose"-"an hour or two of botany, or an astronomical evening, if the stars were...
...year for five years, he returned to Harvard, brought together several of his most brilliant followers, including a winsome, 24-year-old Chinese girl named T'an Pin Pin. One of the first things they did was to arrange with station WRUL, Boston, for daily, half-hour broadcasts in Basic English on short wave for Latin America. These broadcasts (news reports, features, a daily lesson in Basic) have gone on all winter in charge of T'an Pin Pin. This month T'an Pin Pin is returning to China to get married, and the broadcasts have been...
...journalists will move on the Mt. Auburn Street monastery at precisely 2:30 o'clock to observe the Lampymen's hopes go up and spirits go down. After a rebust half-hour the happy group will embark on the largest and best lubricated vehicle now running between Cambridge and Allston...