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Refugees not from their own government but from the unscholarly din of European war are Britain's world-famed Bertrand Russell (soon to become a U. S. citizen); Ivor Armstrong Richards, now working on Basic English at Harvard; Anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski at Yale. Last fortnight famed Finnish Architect Alvar Aalto, who was to direct Finland's reconstruction, changed his mind, decided to stay in the U. S. and teach at M. I. T. Latest scholarly arrivals in the U. S are University of Aberdeen's Lancelot Hog ben (Mathematics for the Million, Science for the Citizen...
...about 2,000 teachers from Midwest schools and colleges met in Chicago for their third annual Conference on Reading. A number of first-rate thinkers have been worrying about the subject for a good 15 years. On hand at the Chicago conference was one of the keenest of them: Ivor Armstrong Richards, Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, collaborator with C. K. Ogden on the famed Meaning of Meaning (1923), author of numerous works that broke ground for such books as Mortimer J. Adler's How to Read A Book (TIME, March...
...Ivor Richards' first public appearance in the U. S. was in 1931 at Harvard, where he arrived straight from two years' teaching at Tsing Hua University, Peking. His rumpled clothes, backswept curls, glinting, slightly Oriental eyes and catching humor interested undergraduates, but what interested them more was his exploratory teaching. A trained psychologist, Richards had discovered not only that the same piece of writing rarely got the same response from any two readers, but that astounding misinterpretations were quite common. His practical exercises in reading English literature correctly were as fresh to Harvard-and as popular-as they...
Last autumn, when it appeared that Europe was beyond Basic for the moment, Ivor Richards shifted his field. With a Rockefeller Foundation grant of $10,000 a year for five years, he returned to Harvard, brought together several of his most brilliant followers, including a winsome, 24-year-old Chinese girl named T'an Pin Pin. One of the first things they did was to arrange with station WRUL, Boston, for daily, half-hour broadcasts in Basic English on short wave for Latin America. These broadcasts (news reports, features, a daily lesson in Basic) have gone on all winter...
...next autumn, however, Ivor Richards plans an extended program. He and his colleagues have completed a primary text of Basic English for Spanish-speaking peoples which will be published by Houghton Mifflin. They have also completed a first-year primer with a Portuguese text for Brazil. Two of them, Mr. & Mrs. Robert Tucker, left last month for Quito, Ecuador, to establish there a Basic English School and to study the results of next autumn's broadcasts. This school will have a competitor, for there is already a well-subsidized German school in Quito...