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...foot, 90? to the yard!"), kept up a steady stream of jingles ("Local bread, pound of meat,/And all the mustard you can eat"), in every way seemed to be just one more concessionaire. But to carnival folk, Witold Krassowski, 35, is now known as "The Professor." A sociologist who teaches and studies at the University of California at Los Angeles in the winter and joins the carnival in the summer, he is a top academic expert on the strange world of the carnies...
...carny world, says Sociologist Krassowski, is a tempting one: "You work like a wild donkey, you don't sleep and you lose weight. You knock the tents down and put them up and knock them down again. But I'm a carny now. In my stand, I watch the customers come in and I find myself thinking: "Poor people, poor people. They cannot do as they please...
This week Professor Henry Allen Bullock, 50, a trained sociologist (Ph.D., University of Michigan, '42) and director of graduate research at Houston's all-Negro Texas Southern University (enrollment: 3,000), told, in an 18-month study of his fellow Negroes' earning power and buying habits, how close the Southern city Negro has moved toward economic equality with whites. While his log-page report is confined to the South's largest city, Houston (pop. 725,000), it is a good indication of the Negro's material advances throughout the Southland...
...Report, called "How the Soviet System Works," is published as a book by the Harvard University Press and summarizes the results of studies made by the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System, with the support of the United States Air Force. Its authors are Psychologist Raymond A. Bauer, Sociologist Alex Inkeles and Anthropologist Clyde Kluckhohn...
...major sociological comment of the week was that of Roosevelt University Sociologist Dr. S. Kirson Weinberg, who saw in rock 'n' roll a manifestation of the insecurities of the age, added that "the effects of the music are more predominant in girls." Or perhaps it was that of the reader of the Denver Post who wrote: "This hooby doopy, oop-shoop, ootie ootie, boom boom de-addy boom, scoobledy goobledy dump-is trash...