Word: minds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gain inherent in the keeping of the name of Harvard before the public mind in association with educational progress is apparent. To achieve this gain it is essential that Harvard news appear in the columns of the daily press. It is infinitely to be preferred that this news be collected and distributed by Harvard officials than that it be allowed to leak out through any of the numerous channels that lead from a complex organization. Official preparation of the news for the press by an authority in whom is vested sole responsibility for publicity would eliminate at the source those...
Having made up his mind, he returned last week to Manhattan. And everyone of the least importance in his Hollywood plant was left to read a book which he had given them. That book is the story of Adolph Zukor and of the shadowland he dominates...
...Harry Elmer Barnes paused a moment deep in thought, as the New York train pulled in at Northampton, Mass., station. Had he remembered to pack: 1) his purple socks? 2) his lemon-yellow shoes? 3) elegant ties, in hues and number sufficient? And had he packed too, in his mind, plenty of his bright, daring, fetching, original phrases, enough to give the solemn old boys a jolt...
...Pennsylvania (William Wallace Atterbury, president) had the biggest, best-integrated, and most strategically located system of the district. It had control of the Wabash and almost half the stock of the Lehigh Valley. Most significantly it was in process of establishing itself in the public mind as the eastern railroad. This it was doing by institutional advertising and by pushing new railroad features, as electrification, air-rail transportation...
...Rich dignity in a biography of da Vinci, the central figure in a luminous tapestry of Italian Renaissance. A CENTURY OF FASHION-Jean Philippe Worth-Little, Brown ($7.50). Three generations of dressmakers dictate to society dowagers, famous actresses, and ladies of the evening. THE TWILIGHT OF THE AMERICAN MIND-Walter B. Pitkin-Simon & Schuster ($3.50). Provocative, logical, but curiously perverted warning against too much education, too thorough eugenics. *A managing editor of the Herald was asked if his office had any list of ''sacred cows." He replied: ''How in hell can I be expected to carry...