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...evaluation of his concept of cataclysmic history. Shapley refused to read it. Despite his ignorance of Velikovsky's detailed arguments, Shapley nevertheless felt sufficiently informed to tell a colleague--who had read Velikovsky's work--that Velikovsky's conclusions were "pretty obviously based on incompetent data." When MacMillan published Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision in 1950, Shapley led his colleagues in criticizing the company for printing a "hoax," going so far as to threaten to terminate Harvard's important relationship with the MacMillan textbook division if it did not stop publication. Shapley also encouraged a member of his Harvard staff...
Bobby Phillips, 36, an office manager who is being transferred by MacMillan Bloedel Containers Inc. from Dayton, Ohio, to northern New Jersey, started looking for a new home and "was terribly disappointed." Says he: "The prices are so much higher than where I come from: $20,000 or $30,000 more for the same thing. And the real estate taxes are four times what they are in the Dayton area." Demand is so hectic that Phillips had to move fast: the 19-year-old house that he chose was on the market all of 30 hours before he agreed...
Adler's liberal education began at 15 when he discovered Plato while reading John Stuart Mill's Autobiography. In his own autobiography appearing next month, Philosopher at Large (Macmillan; $12.95), a chatty, often charmingly self-deprecating memoir of Adlerian triumphs and misadventures, Adler reports that Mill persuaded him to sample some of Plato's Dialogues...
...through the inspiration of ale." Tolstoy said that "Trollope kills me, kills me with his excellence." A newer fan was an American Senator by the name of John Kennedy, who was seen reading The American Senator after he won the Democratic nomination in 1960. Former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan always kept a Trollope novel on his night table. He marveled at the paradox that Trollope's novels are so sound politically, while those of Disraeli, the most adroit politician of the Victorian era, are so patently false. John Kenneth Galbraith confesses to being a Trollope junkie. "For many...
...BOSTON MARATHON by JOE FALLS 203 pages. Illustrated. Macmillan...