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...volume, published by the Yale University Press, will form the basis for the now General Education course which President Conant will himself give next term, Hur..nities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'On Understanding Science' by Conant Hits Bookstands Today | 4/22/1947 | See Source »

...questions or less, the panel tries to identify some object, suggested by a listener. Samples: Ben Hur's chariot, the lost arms of the Venus de Milo, a keyhole, Harvey (Mary Chase's mythical rabbit). An offstage filter mike confidentially cuts listeners in on the secret. Producer Herb Polesie (rhymes with so-lazy) provides the humor, asking such Oscar Levantine questions as "Can I give it to my mother-in-law?" or "Can I do it to my wife?" But the program's popularity is due largely to the expert questioning of Fred, Florence and Bobby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Parlor Game | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

Marshal of the R.A.F. Sir A^hur William Tedder and Lady Tedder, sightseeing in Manhattan, in a single day encountered such varied American novelties as Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, hot dogs, and a college football game (Army 48, Notre Dame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sights & Sounds | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

...copies. Close behind, in this order, are Scrapbookster Elbert Hubbard's Message to Garcia (4,000,000), Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind (3,625,000), Dale Carnegie's How To Win Friends and Influence People (2,751,000), Lew Wallace's Ben Hur (2,500,000), and Marion Hargrove's See Here, Private Hargrove (2,500,000). Farther down the list are Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and Bob Hope's / Never Left Home, with around a million and a half sales each. Anthony Adverse and Edith M. Hull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: HitParade: 1895-1945 | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

...throw-back to the days of "Ben-Hur," "Sign of the Cross" is a mammoth in the tradition of the twenties, when producers undertook to carry out such colossal, stupendous ideas as filming the Bible. It demonstrates the obvious fact that sensuous revels cannot be mixed with martyrs to produce sincere religious inspiration, and it proves that the genuine fervor of the Passion Play cannot be transferred to the screen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 3/20/1945 | See Source »

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