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...sounds, it represents eleven years of research by 32-year-old Horace Schwerin. The son of an electronics engineer, he studied at Pennsylvania's Lafayette College, then majored in psychology and mathematics at London University. He worked with Columbia University's Dr. Paul Lazarsfeld and Dr. Frank Stanton, now president of CBS, in pioneer radio research. He always looked for some way to find out what listeners thought of radio, rather than how many had their sets tuned in. But his system is no guarantee of good programing. Says Schwerin: "Research is no substitute for creative talent...
...facts began to run together in a tantalizing, ominous way. This was about the time the Boss put Jack to digging up dirt on Judge Irwin, who lived at Burden's Landing, in a beautiful house near the beautiful houses where Jack and his friends Adam and Anne Stanton had grown up. The Judge, tall and straight and yellow-eyed, had taught Jack how to shoot ducks when he was a boy and had read history...
...explode the charge until Stark's son, Tom, got a girl into trouble and political enemies started to use this against Willie. When the charge did go off, it uncovered some strange relationships (and some unnecessary melodrama). Jack's mother and his friends, Adam and Anne Stanton, and a lot of others are drawn into the vortex of events that is the swift and punishing, tragic and surprising last half of this book. It is climaxed by the inevitable assassination of Willie Stark in a corridor of the Capitol...
TIME Correspondent John Stanton "was one of the well-guided members of a press party which last week toured the Russian zone of Germany. His report...
...Stanton Burnham...