Word: timidating
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Hutchins, who already holds four jobs in the Britannica hierarchy, will add a fifth: chairman of the board of editors. He plans to concentrate on two projects: 1) hopping up Britannica's 24 films a year (most of which strike him as "too timid, too unimaginative"), thereby leading the way in an "enormous development" of educational films aimed at new, cheaper projectors; 2) editing a 63-volume, "popular-priced" ($200-$250) set of "the great books of the western world," first one-package edition of the "100 Books," many of which are out of print...
...subscribers (at $4 a year). To season its heavy fare of discussions, digests and editorials, there will be dashes of humor and satire, columns with titles like The Little Dog Laughed and Poor Adam's Almanack. "In short," says Clarence Streit, "Freedom & Union will be neither a timid, pallid neutral nor a narrow, humorless zealot." But it will try to count for something among "influential English-reading people" the world over...
...Killed Cock Robin? What had caused its demise? The New York Times thought that Walter Winchell,* who had blurted out hints of war in his Sunday broadcast, had started the avalanche. His big "boo" may have shaken a few timid souls, but no more. Other explanations: the revival of OPA, wage boosts, strikes, production bottlenecks, big inventories, or simply an it's about time slump in the 52-month-old bull market. Said the New-Dealing PM: "There's something wrong with the way America is being managed...
...Russia that might conceivably replace it? That seemed unlikely. Last week Red Star and Red Fleet, official organs of the Soviet Army and Navy, began a campaign to strengthen Communist Party organization in the armed forces. Red Star called for improvement in the Army's "weak and timid" propaganda discussions, and said that to "guarantee our state interests" the Party must reach thousands of officers who lack "serious political education...
...speaking as one journalist to another ... as long as they [the Russians] must pretend to be more perfect than men can ever be, and must hold themselves aloof, obscure and mysterious, the timid may fear them, but the shrewd common sense of mankind and its instinct of liberty will not permit men to trust them, to like them, or to follow them...