Word: reviewers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...president for M.I.T. He is neither a scientist nor an engineer, and he never earned a Ph.D. He is a quiet, competent man, who got his bachelor's degree in business and engineering administration. To support himself as a student, he went to work for the Technology Review, stayed until 1939 when President Karl T. Compton made him his executive assistant. A kindly and laconic man who likes hiking and the novels of George
Inside, one dissenting voice was raised in protest. Armed with a telegram of encouragement from Assistant Secretary of State George V. Allen, Editor Norman Cousins, of the Saturday Review of Literature, spoke over boos and catcalls. To his fellow delegates he said: "I ask you to believe that the American people . . . are not speaking out against the idea of peace . . . They are speaking out against a small political group in this country which has failed to live up to the rules of the game in a democracy . . . Tell the folks at home that Americans are antiCommunist, not anti-humanitarian...
Frank P. Gilmore, associate professor of History, added his remarks to the review of the French Revolution by Stewart. He pointed out the extreme decadence of the Bourbons immediately preceding the 1789 uprising, and added that without this situation the insurgents probably would have fared less well...
...years, book publishers have grumbled among themselves about U.S. newspapers' bestseller lists; the book trade held that they should be made more accurate or they should be abolished. This week the Saturday Review of Literature shouted the same thing out loud with a three-page blast at the "respectable [but] hardly scientific" Sunday lists of the New York Times and Herald Tribune...
...Saturday Review started out with an observation that any casual reader could make: the lists disagree on many books. Example: in 1948, the Times had The Naked and the Dead in first place for 19 weeks; the Tribune had it there for only ten weeks. One reason, said S.R.L., is that the lists are based "on figures obtained from relatively few stores in relatively few cities . . . without reference to the most elementary rules of statistical sampling." The Herald Tribune, said S.R.L., gets its reports from 67 stores in 50 cities (actually, says the Trib, 60 to 80 stores report each...