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...Modern Bride, Popular Photography, Skiing, Skiing Trade News, Stereo Review, The Runner and Yachting) are a windfall. In one stroke, CBS added a dozen established moneymakers with a combined circulation of an estimated 4.7 million to its publishing operation. The company already owned eleven titles, including the Sunday newspaper supplement Family Weekly (circ. 13 million), Woman's Day (circ. 6.9 million), Field & Stream (circ. 2 million) and Mechanix Illustrated (circ. 1.6 million). Ziff called CBS "a great new home" for his magazines. A delighted CBS Chairman Thomas Wyman, who helped engineer the deal, described it as "a rare opportunity...
Film and video clips also supplement many of the exhibits visitors to the museum to see, for example, amusing movies of awe-struck people faced with the first computers. One videotape shows Walter Cronkite describing how "that marvelous electronic brain," the UNIVAC, made early election predictions in the 1952 Eisenhower election...
...Catholic and a conservative, Waugh occupied an underpopulated area in the spectrum of British public opinion. He filled it vigorously, both because he needed the extra money that papers and magazines provided to supplement his earnings from fiction and because he wanted to whip his countrymen into shape. During the 1930s he watched "the pitiable stampede of the 'LeftWing Intellectuals' in our own country" and tried to head it off through ridicule. He mocked the socialist sympathies expressed in Enemies of Promise by Cyril Connolly: "He seems to have two peevish spirits whispering into either ear: one complaining...
...addition, the report calls for proficiency exams to supplement the present grade and credit systems "as a condition of awarding degrees." It also recommends raising faculty pay and giving greater weight to teaching (vs. research) in hiring, salary and tenure. It is, in all, a challenging document, designed to generate the same kind of debate and groundswell of reform that has followed the earlier study on schools. Chairman Mortimer, for one, is confident the reforms will come. "This is the year the spotlight gets thrust on higher education," he says. "It's almost a window of opportunity." -By Ezra...
MANCHESTER, N.H.--The New Hampshire Sunday News refused to distribute its Parade Magazine supplement yesterday because it found Parade's cover article on sexual behavior was "distasteful" and did not meet the paper's standards...