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Shocking Booklet. Perhaps the greatest shock to British complacency last week was a little blue-covered booklet of 62 pages issued by H. M. Stationery Office entitled: Civil Defence Manual of Basic Training-Volume II, Atomic Warfare. The booklet described all the measures to be taken against atomic blast and radioactivity. At two shillings (28^), it was an immediate sellout...
...through the U.S. underbrush. Its name: dianetics. Last week its bible, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, was steadily climbing the U.S. bestseller lists. Demand was especially heavy on the West Coast. Bookstores in Los Angeles were selling Dianetics on an under-the-counter basis. Armed with the manual, which they called simply "The Book," fanatical converts overflowed Saturday night meetings in Hollywood, held dianetics parties, formed clubs, and "audited" (treated) each other...
...Famed calligraphers all. Ludovici Arrighi of Rome published the first manual for nonprofessionals in 1522. Edward Johnston, who died in 1944, was known as the "father of modern English calligraphy." Today's best-known English calligrapher: 55-year-old Alfred J. Fairbank...
This book, edited by Radcliffe's Dean Cronkhite, is precisely what its title indicates. It is a manual telling the graduate student who is planning a career on a university or college faculty how he can best succeed...
...Harvard continues to believe in training men who will be sensitive, disciplined, and articulate, it would seem that the University cannot afford to neglect active, direct esthetic experience as a principal source for precisely such training. "Manual work" in liberal education makes as much sense as it does to those anxious to rescue culture from the talkers. The responsibility for encouraging student work in creative art and providing facilities should be accepted by the administration as part of an expanded program of general art education...