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These experiences have given Joe Brandt some strong opinions on the uses of scholarship. Last week, about to leave Chicago for a new job (president of the Manhattan publishing firm, Henry Holt & Co.), he expressed them at summer graduation exercises. Said he: the Ph.D. is one of education's major ills. "Consciously or unconsciously," Brandt declared, "the American scholar has . . . spent his time on minutiae while Rome burned. . . . [He] is hopelessly inadequate to give the people intellectual and spiritual leadership. And unless our people have such leadership, all the battleships, all the planes, armies and atomic bombs...
...GERMAN TALKS BACK - Heinrich Hauser- Henry Holt...
...last week he had become both famous and wealthy. His drawings had already earned him $25,000, now bring him upwards of $200 a week. They are sold to 138 newspapers. Henry Holt & Co. paid him $5,000 advance on Up Front (it is a Book-of-the-Month Club choice) and Ladies' Home Journal paid him $10,000 for the rights to publish Ladies'-Home-Journalized. excerpts. He won the Pulitzer Prize for 1944's best cartoon. In Italy last week, at a ceremony crowded with brass hats, Bill Mauldin was presented with the Legion...
...MASQUE OF REASON-Robert Frost -Holt...
...Moral inferiorities are least frequent, probably not because of the superior virtue of the students, . . ." G. W. Allport, Personality: A Psychological Interpretation, Henry Holt...