Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thank you for the very generous treatment you gave me and my work. Of course I can't agree entirely with your thought-provoking article, but definitely, from now on, all the millions of parents and all the Aunt Emmas who will read your article will take a closer look at the new book they bring home to fill an empty moment in a child's life; and they might worry a little too (along with all of us who work on children's books and worry a lot) how the child will receive and react...
...Find Out. In 1925, planning to return for work at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, McElroy took a $100-a-month summer job with Procter & Gamble. Says he: "I was a mail boy. That's where they tell you to open and read everybody's mail. It's one way of finding out what's going on." Ambitious, hard-driving Neil McElroy found out enough to realize that Procter & Gamble, with its incentives for the ambitious, hard-driving organization man, was the place for him. He never got to business school, instead stayed...
...though he had to read of his success to believe it, the strongman ordered every newspaper in Venezuela to print frontpage editorials denouncing the uprising. Quick to refuse was the Rev. Jesús Hernández Chapellin, editor of the Roman Catholic daily La Religión. Pérez Jiménez jailed the priest, kept him jailed even after the government canceled its order to the press. At week's end, shorn of the belief that the armed forces were 100% behind him, and battling the Catholic Church, the pudgy dictator wore an unsettled look strangely...
Jottings From a Writer's Notebook (Dutton; $3) by sententious Author Van Wyck Brooks, 71, nearing his first half-century as an ever-flowering sage, essayist and literary historian, treated readers to some lively odds and ends of fact and philosophy. Nugget: "How many books can any man read? A supposedly well-informed journalist has written that Hitler undoubtedly read most of the 7,000 military books in his library. So Lawrence of Arabia was said to have read at Oxford most of the 40,000 books in the library of his college. So Thomas Wolfe allegedly devoured...
...have found Dr. Farnsworth's book most sensible and even wise. But although, as a teacher, I have had some experience with emotional troubles in students, still I speak only as a layman. I will therefore urge your readers to withhold any judgement on this book until they read it for themselves, and to ignore Mr. Jencks' highly irresponsible statements...