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Exeter's diverse writers include Booth Tarkington, Robert Benchley, Drew Pearson. Andover's are Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Lardner, Quentin Reynolds, John Home Burns, James Ramsay Ullman and the much-read Dr. Benjamin Spock. Most famous nongrad is Andover's Humphrey Bogart, who got the boot for "incontrollably high spirits" (he dunked a teacher in Rabbit Pond) and spent his life boasting about...
...years ago by saturating the Middle and Far East with low-priced books. But the Russians keep running up against a formidable obstacle: a great curiosity for American books. In Egypt 50% of publishers' lists are books of U.S. origin. In Iran a Persian edition of Dr. Spock's baby book was hard to get published because the printers kept snitching page proofs to take home to their wives. In other countries the primer style of U.S. textbooks (often none too popular at home) is highly esteemed for self-teaching. This vast foreign market is now being tapped...
...deplore your condescending and superior attitude toward SANE and Dr. Spock. As a psychiatrist who has worked with children for many years, I feel that Dr. Spock presents a very honest and realistic attitude toward this insane business of atomic testing. He does not go far enough. Psychiatrists recognize that this constant living in fear, which we are all doing, is having a tremendous emotional impact upon our children. The constant talk about the nuclear threat and the threat of war is not conducive to happiness in our children. If more courageous and thoughtful Americans would speak...
Whenever their babies come down with the colic or break out in bumps, thousands of U.S. mothers turn to the unworried advice of Dr. Benjamin Spock. Yet Dr. Spock has his own anxieties, and last week they were written all over his kindly face as he appeared, with a little girl, in a full-page advertisement in the New York Times. Said the ad written by Spock: "I am worried. Not so much about the effect of past tests but at the prospect of endless future ones. As the tests multiply, so will the damage to children-here and around...
...psychological reasons." It urges Kennedy to hold off on testing until he is absolutely certain that the Soviet Union will not sign a test-ban treaty-as if the U.S.S.R.'s refusal were not already perfectly plain. SANE's general outlook is reflected by kindly Dr. Benjamin Spock...