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Classicists Cairns, Tate and Van Doren earnestly tried to enliven their performance with modern applications of the classics. Quite without sparkle, their program plodded at a pedestrian classroom pace. Nonetheless, to the amazement of one & all, by last week it had attained an estimated audience of 1,000,000. Half a dozen publishers began to sell cheap editions of the classics hand over fist, 4,000 libraries found the books in such demand that they dug them out of dusty stacks, put them on special shelves...
Died. Franklin Henry Hooper, 78, editor emeritus of the Encyclopaedia Britannica; of injuries when he was hit by a truck; in Saranac Lake, N. Y. After supervising five Encyclopaedia editions as managing or U. S. editor, he became editor-in-chief in 1932, retired two years ago. A dauntless pedestrian, Editor Hooper persistently flouted traffic signals, replied to friends' pleas for caution: "We are all going to die some...
...they are bores, frequently they are flops. At their best, class pictures can be as good as We Are Not Alone, which Paul Muni and Flora Robson strove (in vain) to bring to life. Or they may be as bad as Vigil in the Night. Or they may be pedestrian and pretentious like...
...outshone by Griffin, Shinola shoe polish also took to the air last Saturday (10 to 10:30 a.m. E.S.T., NBC-Red) with Play Actor Burgess Meredith (a radio serial alumnus) in a weekly series called Lincoln Highway. Last week's pedestrian episode along the famed 3,400-mile, coast-to-coast road was a low-budget It Happened One Night, whose boy-girl hitchhikers fall in love in a barn near Valparaiso (Ind.), instead of in a tourist cabin...
Sample question: "You are helping to load a sanitation truck at night. A passing pedestrian asks you the location of a street address. You do not know the answer. . . . Of the following, the best procedure is to tell the pedestrian a) that you are a sanitation man and not a traffic cop, b) not to interfere with a city employee in the performance of his duties, c) to ask another man in the crew because you are busy, d) that you do not know and refer him to a nearby traffic officer, e) to look it up in the telephone...