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Prof. Bliss--Keep your head and pencil busy in this class...
...loving Republican statisticians, pencil & paper in hand, conjectured how easily Tom Dewey might have won, with but a few hundred thousand more votes in the right places. They found that a shift of only 303.414 votes would have given Tom Dewey 15 more states,*and a bare electoral majority. The exercise had one validity: it showed how much closer was the popular vote than Franklin Roosevelt's electoral sweep indicated. But Democratic lightning calculators came right back: a shift of only 282,000 votes in the Dewey states, and Franklin Roosevelt would have carried...
...tonight there were no cocktails. He smoked only two cigarets all evening -one before the speech, one after. Silently, engrossed, unsmiling, he passed rapidly through his crabmeat, turtle soup, breast of chicken, then pulled out his speech text and went to work. Pencil in hand, wetting his big thumb from time to time as he turned the pages, he read the speech over to himself, speaking softly, gesturing slightly. In the unflattering light of the little reading lamp, his weary face looked seamed and haggard. As he read he would jot down little interpolations, asides and personal stage directions. This...
...they think. For instance, 27-year-old Walter Piper, who wears a black glove because he lost his right arm on New Guinea, wishes some of his professors would not be so impatient with his slow note-taking. His left hand is not yet very handy with a pencil. And 21-year-old Marvin Niles, who is slow too, wishes the professor would remember that the German land mine which shredded and scarred his arm in Sicily left his elbow so sensitive that when it brushes against a desk he almost screams with the pain...
...academic dead weight. The course was The World and America, produced by TIME'S Radio Programs Department, which last week had reached the American Revolution and its 14th out of 52 weekly 15-minute broadcasts. The program is locally sponsored in New York City by the Eagle Pencil Co. (WQXR, Sun., 2 p.m., E.W.T...