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Heard Around Town. If the Press itself has grown great, a good deal of the credit goes to the paper's bouncy, bantam-sized (5 ft. 5 in., 128 Ibs.) editor, Louis Seltzer, who started on the Press at 18 as a police reporter, and at 56 is Cleveland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Home-Town Daily | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

The reader follows Jean into a dissecting room, where he cuts up cadavers; a slum, where he meets a leper; a hovel, where he hears a baby "leave the mother's belly with a moist squelching sound"; a ward, where he observes a woman choke to death of slow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: European Bestseller | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

Nothing could be more naturally appropriate for radio than concerts, argues Daniel. They can be heard in fireside comfort, and there is more opportunity to program them now that TV has siphoned off many of the big commercial shows. It is equally natural for radio to offer contemporary music, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Comes the Contemporary | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

Preacher in the Cellar. The worst of all this, says Lynd, is that the superprofessionals themselves are often "half-educated or uneducated." Having taken John Dewey's anti-absolutism as the only true absolute, they feel little compulsion to dig into the wisdom of the past. Thus, "one hears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Oceans of Piffle | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

Old Devil Sex. Up to this point, Author Buck handles her material nicely, bringing the core of religion steadily closer to the reader. Then, suddenly, she gives out. The conclusion she wants to reach is that neither dollars nor Christian dogma can bridge the U.S.-Indian gap; there must be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wall Street to Mud Hut | 8/10/1953 | See Source »

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