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What College Bowl suffers from is a sophomoric strain on the basketball analogy. A referee's shrill whistle signals half time and the commercial. A student audience is encouraged to cheer each correct answer. After Northwestern was defeated by Georgetown a few weeks back, Northwestern students hanged in effigy the quiz team's coach, Dean of Students James Currie McLeod. Mused McLeod: "Who knows-I may wind up like Terry Brennan...
...Newark studios with an impressive line-up of talkers. Producer David Susskind has no time limit at all on his Sunday-night round table, Open End (TIME, Nov. 24), and it usually rambles on for two hours. Mike Wallace, the waspish interviewer of a few seasons back, conducts half-hour sessions Monday through Friday. Bishop Fulton Sheen holds forth on Tuesdays, New Jersey's Governor on Sunday, Beauty Consultant Richard Willis Monday through Friday; Fannie Hurst's Showcase follows Willis. Henry Morgan snarls at his sponsors Friday evenings. Actor Martin (The Rivalry) Gabel presides at a limping...
...Half in jest, the American Miscellaneous Society (AMSOC) was "founded" by alphabet-weary scientists at the Office of Naval Research in 1952. AMSOC has about 50 members, but no records, dues, laws or officers; its meetings have been held at Washington cocktail parties with a two-member quorum. Typical agenda item: how to tow Antarctic icebergs north and melt them to irrigate Southern California. But in science the impractical can turn practical overnight with a little cash behind it. In Scientific American this week, Geologist Willard Bascom published the first full report of a onetime AMSOC daydream, which...
...Adler and six fellow brains have spent seven years patiently sifting the "Great Ideas" of the ages (by Adler's classification, 102), seeking to mold their meaning into patterns intelligible to all men. At the institute's rate of progress (their first "Great Idea," freedom, is half explored), the job will take 12 centuries...
Blasé Beasts. Last year safari activity accounted for more than half of East Africa's $17 million tourist revenue, and is still growing. There are seven safari firms operating out of Nairobi this year (v. one in 1939). Once confined to a 100-mile radius of civilized Nairobi (pop. 230,000), the quest for big game has spread from northern Uganda to southern Tanganyika. The white hunters who lead safaris are making more money than ever-$7,000 a year is average and $14,000 is not uncommon for the popular hunters. Luxury is at an alltime high...