Word: manual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eleven, Edgar Bergen had found that he could throw his voice (his mother was forever answering the door in response to pleas of mysterious old men who begged to be let in). The boy was further in spired by Herrman's Wizards Manual, Secrets of Magic, Black Art, Mind Reading and Ventriloquism (including a chap ter on "how to cut a man's head off and put it into a platter a yard from his body"). Charlie McCarthy was just what Bergen needed. The little dummy was such a social success (unlike Bergen alone) that he lured Bergen...
...issue of academic freedom involving other men, Professor Beard resigned from Columbia with the statement: "I cannot repress my astonishment that America . . . has made the status of the professor lower than that of the manual laborer, who, through his union, has at least some voice in the terms and conditions of his employment." Next day the New York Times ran an editorial titled: "Columbia's Deliverance...
...Westmoreland, Pa., to give that year's unemployed college students something to do. Since then the idea has been picked up by many schools and other groups. Combining some features of summer camp, settlement house, college and the CCC, work camps teach neighborliness, public service, respect for manual labor, self-government...
...Farmers and manual workers, skilled and unskilled, went to the polls in almost equal percentages. But the white-collar turnout was 15% greater than either...
Encyclopedia Americana: Optimist--midshipman who spends his free time making the Manual changes...