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...Caudill et al. built their school, there would be no more set schedules for classes, no separate grades for different age groups, no barriers between subjects. Nor would there be any definite dividing line between the school and the home. Their ideal campus is in the shape of an octopus whose tentacles stretch out from the Center into the residential areas, providing pupils and adults alike with "tennis courts, baseball, football, soccer fields, skating rinks, as well as bird sanctuaries, botanical gardens and nature-study groves...
...Member of TIME Inc.'s editorial staff from 1929 to 1948; no kin to turn-of-the-century Novelist Frank (short for Benjamin Franklin) Norris (The Octopus, The Pit), or his sister-in-law, Kathleen Norris, dean of women's magazine novelists...
...Mature is grimly determined to make every carchariid in creation pay the reckoning. Assigned to accelerate research on shark repellents. Mature moves in on a sluggish school of scientists like a shovelnose on shrimp. Everything from poison to ultrasonics has been tried, but only copper acetate and octopus juice seem to have much effect on the brutes. However, neither of these is strong enough. What...
While Commander Mature-for whom it seems to be much easier to catch an octopus than to pronounce it-strains his brains over a problem of chemistry that turns out to be about as difficult as mixing a highball, the moviegoer has plenty of time to enjoy the seascapes off Cuba, where the film was made, and to get monumentally bored by the story. Things pick up toward the end, though, when Actor Mature himself takes to the water to make the final test. For a little while, as the sharks circle closer and closer, there seems...
...John G. Burnett (Harper; $3.50), castigates his spineless section chief for caving in to the pressure of office politics. On the surface, Author Burnett's tale, revolving about a big U.S. airline, is merely one more in the long list of novels, from Frank Norris' The Octopus to Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt and John Dos Passos' The Big Money, that show businessmen at their materialistic worst. Yet for all the angry talk of flint-hearted, fatheaded bosses, there is a big difference in Company Man that is symptomatic of the spate of new novels rediscovering the American...