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...forum, 700 Manhattanites got the first public look at two of the MARCH OF TIME-made movies which Richards used in teaching his 1,000 Chinese, hopes to use in teaching many millions more, of all nations. To audiences who already know more than 850 words of English, the primer-like repetition of the sound of words gets pretty unbearable. But with the Chinese, said Richards, the movie "worked like a dream...
...best -but many of the worst-of the most widely published pictures recently produced in the U.S. Portrait of America reproduced four Satevepost and two New Yorker covers, a spate of paintings for ads, and a few art-gallery pictures. It led off with a four-page primer on U.S. art history by Book Critic Bernard DeVoto who, being a literary man, thinks of art as illustration...
After six weeks in Japan, TIME'S Chief Pacific Correspondent Manfred Gott fried added up his impressions in a succinct primer of questions & answers...
Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd, long the self-appointed primer of civil service's lush vine, suited his shears to the times. Noting that the vine had waxed during wartime until it bore 3,649,000 employes, he decided that it was too late for mere snipping. His proposal to the Senate: chop off all but 1,000,000 at a single slice, and send them back home...
...Edna Ferber is white-haired, handsome and still single. She attributes her fabulous success to the fact that "I write about fundamental things-love, marriage, hardship, vitality, country -the things writers used to spit at." Besides this, she explains, "I try to write in language people can understand. Not primer stuff, but simple language and thoughts everybody has." One of Author Ferber's prime annoyances (it has been bothering her for years) is the opprobrium which she feels is attached in the U.S. to the term "best-seller." "What's wrong with writing a book that lots...