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...ATLAS: a sort of highbrow Reader's Digest with reprints, excerpts and translations from the foreign press, launched last March by Eleanor Davidson Worley, stepdaughter of the late publisher of Illinois and California newspapers, Ira C. Copley, with ABC Newsman Quincy Howe as co-editor...
...expect to like everything, or even to understand it. They often merely endure it, and remind themselves that Wagner and Beethoven were considered far out in their day too. Just how much a listener will unquestioningly endure was acknowledged last week by the British Broadcasting Corporation. On its highbrow Third Program, it recently broadcast a musical "composition"' consisting of twelve minutes of random noise -and received no complaints...
Died. Henry Seidel Canby, 82, scholarly critic who, as founder and editor (1924-36) of the Saturday Review of Literature and chief judge (1926-58) of the Book-of-the-Month Club, was literary arbiter for millions of American readers, highbrow and middlebrow alike; of cancer; in Ossining, N.Y. Biographer of Whitman and Thoreau, author or editor of nearly three dozen other books, Canby was a reliable, middle-of-the-road literary leader whose job, as he saw it, was to "pass on sound values to the reading public...
Charles J. Hitch, 51, Assistant Secretary of Defense (comptroller). Bow-tied Scholar Hitch has been chief of economics research at California's highbrow Rand Corp. since 1948, two months ago was named director of the corporation's overall research program. He has published three brain-cracking books (the latest: last year's The Economics of Defense in the Nuclear Age). At Rand, Hitch has been in charge of thinking out the economic implications of cold war military problems and weapons systems-an assignment so close to his new job as Defense's financial watchdog that...
According to Mr. MacDonald, American culture during the past half-century has been exposed to the same leveling process which has operated on other aspects of American society. A great legion of well-intentioned clods has materialized as a result. This is a legion that threatens to destroy any highbrow culture that remains in this country; for the middlebrow ruthlessly appropriates highbrow literature and cuts it to fit the well-worn grooves of his own mind. The middlebrow belongs to book clubs that describe the Iliad as "Homer's immortal masterpiece"; he thinks in terms of "truth" and "universals...