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...illogical, folklore-spouting Vellkovsky, George Gamow, Consultant to the A.E.C. and Prof. of Theoretical Physics at George Washington University, certainly has a throught grasp of the concepts involved in "The Creation of the Universe." His treatment of subjects ranging from: "The Private Lives of the Stars" to "The Critchfield H-H Process," while easy to read and follow, is altogether sound and rigorous...

Author: By Thomas H. Stearns, | Title: Birth of a Universe | 5/2/1952 | See Source »

...special group of judges was asked to study the scores and select works for two appealing, well-balanced programs. After three weeks, the judges (Prof. Aaron Copland, Prof. G. Wallace Woodworth, Robert Middleton, Allen D. Sapp, all from the music department, Russell Stanger, conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, Mandelbaum, John Davison 1G, Robert Swaney '53, Frank Sander 3G, and this reviewer) selected fifteen chamber, choral, and orchestral compositions. Musical merit was not the sole criterion. We also had to keep the audience and the performers in mind, and choose works not too difficult to play or understand...

Author: By Lawrence R. Casler., | Title: Birth of a Tradition | 4/24/1952 | See Source »

...rest of the issue varies from dull to distasteful. John Hubbard's Prof--is a satire on the General Education trend-idea-few-fact method of teaching. It is no great trick to distort this theory and make it seem ridiculous, and that is all Hubbard has done...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: The Lampoon | 2/29/1952 | See Source »

...last week, when Bar reca formally opened a new $500,000 plant at Port Credit, Ont., Canadian Admiral had sold more than 16,000 TV sets and was the nation's biggest television manu- facturer. For 1950, its sales totaled $5,000,000 (up 92% from 1949), net prof its $308,000 (up 123%). The Port Credit plant, a shiny brick-and-glass structure on the mud flats, is turning out sets at a rate of 25,000 a year, and Barreca is ready to hike that to 50,000 on short notice. The first Canadian TV station goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Bullish Billions | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

...Thus Prof. Frederick Merk is accorded his rightful place in history as a 20th Century trail-blazer no less resolute, determined and tenacious than those hardy, self-reliant pioneers about whom he lectures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Resolute Pioneer Pluck Credited For Prof. Merk's Epic 1940 Trek | 3/16/1951 | See Source »

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