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Richard Stern, director of the German university's English seminar, writes that the American books are needed for some 300 students attending lectures on American literature. "Literary soldiers stripped the pre-war shelves," explains Stern.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Heidelberg Requests Second-Hand Books | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

Richard Stern, director of the German university's English seminar, writes that the American books are needed for some 300 students attending lectures on American literature. "Literary soldiers stripped the pre-war shelves," explains Stern.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Heidelberg Requests Second-Hand Books | 9/1/1950 | See Source »

¶ In his new book, Radio, Television, and Society (Oxford University Press; $4.75), British-born Educator Charles A. Siepmann disposed of radio's old argument that it is just giving the public what it wants. Wrote Siepmann: "[That] theory makes as much sense as if a large department store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Dissenters | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

How much of a selection does the average regular get when he does go to his library? Not much, reports the inquiry. Ninety percent of U.S. libraries are in towns of under 5,000 to 25,000 people. Many of them have fewer than 6,000 books, struggle along with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Needed: a System | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

The day after the big, rain-drenched Whitsuntide rally ended with torchlights and fireworks, several thousand Communist kids invaded Western Berlin. But it was not the kind of invasion that the Communists had originally planned. The kids from Eastern Germany swarmed into the free part of Berlin to stare longingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Visitors | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

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