Word: highbrow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frankly out for the millions. "We're not going to fuss around with highbrow programs. We're primed for a battle with the other networks for mass listenership. It's taken us two years to get in position, and now we're going to move in, fast...
...sings highbrow and unhackneyed programs of almost equal density in Winnipeg, Saginaw and Manhattan, and finds that audiences like them equally well in all three places. Says she: "I thought Kalamazoo was a joke. Then all of a sudden, I get an engagement for Kalamazoo. I don't go down to them. I give them everything I have in myself. In Kalamazoo is a wonderful audience...
...Jamini Roy, a Calcutta "primitive" who quit his highbrow protrait business to paint flat, bright figures like the ones which decorate Bengali pots and dolls. Jamini (rhymes with Tammany) makes his own paints from rock dust, mud, chalk and tamarind seeds, keeps a back-roomful of helpers grinding out copies of his wasp-waisted festival dancers, friendly tigers and almond-eyed Christs...
Right around Home. The U.S. has its store of worms. In the highbrow town of Princeton, NJ. (where Dr. Stoll lives), 23% of the children were found, in 1943, to be infested with some kind of worms. Commonest U.S. worm is the trichinella, which makes the U.S. its headquarters and infests 21 million people, one-sixth of the population, three times as many as in all the rest of the world. These worms cause trichinosis, with a long list of symptoms: spots on the skin, swellings, nausea, pains all over the body, wasting and general weakness...
Entomologists and mechanical engineers ordinarily have little to do with one another. The first study bugs; the second design machinery. But last week the Sperry Gyroscope Co., designers of highbrow airplane instruments, told of a fruitful side trip into entomology...