Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Comics, once regarded as a specific for all circulation ills, are now the sick chicks of the newspaper business." The measure of a strip has long been 50% readership for a good comic, up to 80% for the best., e.g., Dick Tracy, Li'l Abner. But a recent survey in one major U.S. city showed that of 40 strips published, only 13 have 50% readership (v. 20 in 1950). Readership of all comics has declined there an average 15% since a 1950 survey...
CONQUEST BY MAN (455 pp.)-Paul Herrmann-Harper ($6). This is a German scholar's fascinating survey of travel and discovery before Columbus. Author Herrmann has pulled together all sorts of odd bits of learned lore to show that "the world has been since early times almost as great and wide as in our own day." He tells why experts now think that Bronze Age drummers lugged oaken sample cases through north European forests, and how the Egyptians of 4,000 years ago rowed their galleys 4,000 miles south to the Zambezi River to fetch myrrh, frankincense...
...survey is part of a comprehensive Council investigation of faculty, student, and clerical opinion, in preparation for a report on the role of religion in general education...
...American student is less interested in social problems than his foreign counterpart. In answer to the survey question, "If you should get a large sum of money five years from now, what would you do with it?" only two percent of American students indicated that they would use some of the money to alleviate social misery, again the lowest score of the ton nations...
...works, most of them donated by enthusiastic San Francisco collectors. Included in the current anniversary show are the outstanding works from the museum's San Francisco Bay area annuals, which have given a boost to such artists as Dong Kingman and the late Matthew Barnes, a survey of Latin American art, important works by Braque, Klee, Matisse and Franz Marc. For the gala opening, the museum unveiled nine handsome new donations to the museum, including Georges Rouault's Sea of Galilee, and bronzes by Henry Moore, Braque and Matisse...