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...trying to write his third book. "I'm writing one on how to write articles for mags. I'm writing it especially for part-time writers like naval officers, housewives, and businessmen. If everyone could only write well, they could make a hell of a lot of money and impart their knowledge to a lot of people...
...high school that consists of intensive drill in memorization and very little else, enters the university at about 18 . . .is confined to a single 'faculty,' and never, intellectually speaking, gets outside it. Then and there he is committed for life to theology, law, or medicine." To impart knowledge of other fields is not the university's job. "It is a professional training ground, and it imparts standard and formal disciplines. In the university, the professor tells the student, and on examinations, the student repeats what the professor has told...
Died. Sir George Oliver Colthurst, 68, owner of Blarney Castle and its famed Blarney Stone; of heart disease; in Blarney, County Cork, Ireland. Scholars are uncertain whether the Stone's ability to impart eloquent persuasiveness to all who kiss it began as a folk legend or a pressagent's idea. Whatever its source, the story spread until it gave a word to the language, a handsome yearly revenue to the castle's owners. Likeliest story: legend was inspired by Cormach McDermod Carthy, an early iyth Century occupant of the castle, for his verbal skill at harassing Queen...
While the Middle Eastern desk thus managed to impart to New York traffic a touch of Middle Eastern inefficiency, a recent Czech broadcast made it sound superhumanly efficient. "We must not forget to mention the buses, as they are called here for short . . . They all have one strange quality in common . . . There is only one person, a single man, who not only drives the bus but also takes the fares, makes change, opens and closes the doors . . . And yet he certainly does not run down any more pedestrians than the driver in Paris, London or Prague, who only drives...
...Fiat auto plant at Turin, and to help with a $4,300,000 modernization of a sheet steel mill at Terni, 34% financed by ECA funds. Said Solborg: "This is the sort of thing ECA should have been doing from its very beginning. The only way to impart American know-how to European industry is through people who do it best-American business and industry...