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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into his father's office, from whose walls a row of New Deal dignitaries look down, David ("Tommy") Stern 3rd moved last week, becoming general manager of Philadelphia's rambunctious Record. Short, red-faced, 28 and popping with ideas, Tommy Stern intimately resembles his father in appearance and energy. For many a moon he has been itching to have a paper all his own, has bid for the Harrisburg Telegraph and Providence Star-Tribune. Now he has agreed to stay put for a year on the Record. If Tommy proves as big as his job, J. David Stern...
...miles in diameter, could contain a million bodies the size of the earth. Yet the sun, though of higher than average luminosity, is rather on the small side as stars go, being officially classed as a "yellow dwarf." For a really big star astronomers look to Antares, a red supergiant 400,000,000 miles in diameter. All stars are globes of hot gas. Antares is relatively cool, its gaseous density very low. Thirty-seven thousand cubic feet of its star-stuff, if concentrated and brought to earth, would weigh only one pound. Yet up to last week it held rank...
...most readers make tonic good sense. But, as with most of Stuart Chase's writing, they are likely to be more impressed with his devastating diagnosis than with his cureall. Picturing present-day human communications as a telephone switchboard with all the wires crossed, Stuart Chase can only look hopefully toward a distant future when, through the rigorous application of semantics, the connection between minds will be quick and clear...
...present, he offers only such concrete examples as how semantics enabled him to cure himself of a fear of "snakes," such hypothetical examples as how it might keep a man from committing suicide. In the mind of the would-be suicide, suggests Chase, would occur a semantic Stop-Look-Listen! monolog like this: "This is bad; this is painful, depressing, almost intolerable. But my life, my organism, is a process, always changing ... no two contexts are tho same. . . . Snap out of it, brother, snap out of it! Prepare for the next context...
...result anthropologists have prophesied that the human race will eventually become toothless. But he went on, it is quite as logical to suppose that with increasing knowledge of the factors which influence dental development and with control of the wide spread diseases, caries and pyorrhea, we may look forward to a time when all men will have perfect teeth lasting a full life time...