Word: long
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thousands of Berliners this week were dialing "23" on their telephones. What they got was not the time, the weather or Long Distance, but a three-minute report of the latest news from radio station RIAS (Rundfunk im Amerikanischen Sektor). Of the 20,000-30,000 daily calls, nearly half come from residents of Berlin's Soviet sector, who apparently want their telephoned news uncluttered by the party line...
With a loan from Marshall Field, Williams bought the decrepit old (105 years) monthly Southern Farmer in Montgomery, Ala. for an estimated $100,000. The tabloid-size Farmer, which looks more like a newspaper than a magazine, had long been against the New Deal and for white supremacy, delighted the "red necks" with its waving of the bloody shirt...
...question that Hutchins was to put to U.S. higher education (in the loudest of voices): What shall we do with the facts? Robert Hutchins got his chance to make the challenge just two years later. At 30 he became the "boy wonder" president of the University of Chicago. Not long after, he invited Adler to come out and be a .professor. "I'm the president of a great university," Hutchins announced to Adler at lunch. "But I haven't thought about education." "Me either," said Mortimer. "I'm a philosopher." The only thoughts he had about education...
...while it seemed as if he might not last even that long. In the midst of the furor that followed, one dean guessed that if they had ever voted on the matter, nine out of ten professors would have voted to oust him. But somehow, the vote was never taken...
...Speeches. On his 20th anniversary there would be no elaborate festivities for tall (6 ft. 2 in.), trim, greying Bob Hutchins. "If there is one thing I hate worse than a long introductory speech," he snorted when his trustees offered to give him a dinner, "it is a lot of long introductory speeches." Instead, he went about his business as usual, filling his own house with the clack of his typewriter at 6 in the morning and working through the day in his bright white-walled campus office, which a battery of clerks outside take pleasure in calling...