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...room, pitches his coat to the nearest man, and says, 'Now, what do you want to talk about?' If it's politics, just ask him. He's covered the conventions, interviewed almost all the major names on the front pages, and can give an unadorned, thumbnail description of any politico in the field . . . His return is ever welcome. A big man with a big heart, he gives us encouragement to reach again for the goal...
Yale University's President A. Whitney Griswold gave a University of Georgia audience his thumbnail summary of the state of culture in the U.S. Said he: "Culture is being lost among oxidized jukeboxes and television sets and petrified bubble gum." Furthermore, he added, "We are the best informed nation in the world, with the most primitive ideas of what to do with the knowledge...
...ease of the old-fashioned carborundum crystal, it can change alternating current to direct; and like a vacuum tube, it can amplify faint, fluctuating currents. But where the vacuum tube is often bulky, fragile and uses large amounts of power, the rugged little transistor, no bigger than a thumbnail, works on minute amounts of energy. Last week in Princeton, N.J., the Radio Corp. of America demonstrated just how far transistors have come toward practical use. Almost all equipment into which they have been built operates on batteries the diameter of a 25? piece. Among the RCA exhibits...
...five-minute radio show, This I Believe has been one of the most popular items that ever hit CBS. It has been snapped up by 196 U.S. radio stations; its thumbnail texts have been reproduced in 85 U.S. daily newspapers, and relayed over the Voice of America to 97 foreign countries...
...current Saturday Review, Claude Fuess, onetime headmaster of Andover, gives his own thumbnail history of education during the last 50 years. Main trends: "Liberation of the Curriculum; the Mania for Military Preparation; the Formations of Small Sections and of Fast and Slow Divisions; the Rediscovery of Interest as a Motive; the Apotheosis of the I.Q. ; the Glorification of the Aptitude Test; the Popular Demand for Individual Attention; the Rise and Decline of Progressive Education; the Cumulative Menace of the Movies, Radio and Television; the Falling off in Voluntary Reading; the Multiplication of Records; and finally, the Training for Citizenship...