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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Additions to the Coop's shelves will include works of Stuart Chase, Wendell Johnson, Hayakawa and Korzybski, chosen from a suggested list in "ETC.", a general semantics quarterly...
...world should ever issue something comparable to Poor's Index of business trustees and their innumerable directorships. Dr. Satya Prakash of India would be high on its initial list. For Dr. Prakash, who was a visitor around Harvard during the first week of the Summer Session, is Director of not one but a dozen museums located in the state of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India. Dr. Prakash has been in America for most of the past year on an Indian government scholarship studying museum techniques in Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Phoenix, San Francisco, New York, Boston and The Old Sturbridge Colonial Village--among other...
Britain's immaculate Tailor and Cutter Magazine surveyed the international scene, issued a list of the world's best-dressed males. Among them: Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito ("the ritziest looking dictator in the world"), Richard Nixon ("a neat line between the wigwag shapes of U.S. drape and the ludicrously tight togs of U.S. Ivy Leaguers"), durable Hoofer Fred Astaire ("one of the few Americans who can wear a suit of tails"), Cinemactor Rex Harrison ("the best British answer to the Italian look"), Douglas Fairbanks Jr. ("British taste and American imagination"), Plutocrat Nubar Gulbenkian...
...come through Omaha," says Guild Executive Vice President William J. Farson, "until someone asks us." Of some 1,750 U.S. dailies, the Guild has contracts with only 176, is so unambitious an explorer of virgin territory that organizing new locals is last on its priority list. First: recruiting 5,000 "free riders," or non-dues-paying newspaper employees, already covered by Guild contracts...
...cultural handicappers who tick off lists of the Ten Best Books To Be Stranded in Toledo With have missed a bet. Far more interesting might be a compilation of the Ten Best Bad Novels-books whose artistic flaws are mountainous but whose merits, like Loreleis on the rocks above, keep on luring readers. A place on such a list would go to Author Condon's second novel, an almost complete catalogue of humanity's disorders, including incest, dope addiction, war, politics, brainwashing and multiple murder. The book carries a superstructure of plot that would capsize Hawaii, and badly...