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...sales zoomed, sponsors were competing for programs, and by the fall of 1960, ABC was a contender for the title of the most popular U.S. network. Since imitation is the sincerest form of television, CBS and NBC hastened to adapt their programming to the ABC formula...
...sincerest gratitude for your handling of my book What Ivan Knows That Johnny Doesn't in the Education section of the Nov. 17 issue. I feel that TIME has performed a very valuable service in calling nationwide attention to serious problems in the quality of American education by the comments not only on my book but upon the book Tomorrow's Illiterates as well. Altogether the piece was in the very best TIME tradition...
Parody is the sincerest form of literary flattery and one of the highest forms of criticism. It must duel with the creator on his own ground, and when successful, is calculated to make the Cyrano de Berge-racs of the arts feel that it is not just their noses but their swords that are comic. The true parodist must do more than spoof superficial oddities and quirks of style; he must reach the deeper eccentricities of attitude, summon the author's familiar spirit and transform it into a Halloween mask...
...while, Detroit regarded him as a mere windmill tilter. But as Romney began to smite the dinosaur hip and thigh, TIME chronicled his success round by round, carefully reported the rise of the small car in the U.S. Finally, the Big Three have had to pay Romney the sincerest form of flattery by bringing out their own compact cars. For the story of Bible-quoting George Romney's amazing rise-and what will happen to him and his company now-see BUSINESS, The Dinosaur Hunter...
...solid is the foundation, in fact, that it has a waiting list of French teachers and a constant flow of applications from Lakewood boys and girls who want more stimulus than they get in school. But the foundation's sincerest compliment has come from Lakewood's public-school system itself. Last fall, after the foundation's success with teaching French to children, the Lakewood public schools tentatively introduced Spanish, French and German to a selected group of seventh-graders. The program is working out so well that next fall these languages will be offered to all seventh...