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...biography (Until Victory: Horace Mann and Mary Peabody; Little, Brown; $5), Mrs. Louise Hall Tharp is too close to the trees of worshipfulrress to see clearly the forest of Mann's contribution. But her book is worth reading, if only as a reminder that Horace Mann was a titan in the field of educational statesmanship...
Reuther's obvious urge to power and his lack of personal warmth sometimes worry his admirers, one of whom has remarked nervously on the U.A.W. president's resemblance to the stereotype titan of industry. Like many a business tycoon, he displays a single-minded devotion to work, which often keeps him away from his wife and two daughters for days at a time. No sooner had he won full dominance over the U.A.W. in 1947, than the nonsmoking, nondrinking Reuther spelled out the new order to his associates. "Now," said he, "there'll be no more...
...other proof is being sought by studying Titan (one of the satellites of Saturn), which is somewhat bigger than the moon. Titan is too cold for life as the earth knows it, but it has an atmosphere containing much methane. Chemist Urey hopes to find that sunlight is slowly making organic compounds out of this simple gas. If Titan were warmer and bigger the process might already have clothed it with oxygen-and life...
Died. William E. Scripps, 70, publisher (since 1929) of the Detroit News (founded by his father, James E. Scripps, a half-brother of Newspaper Titan E. W. Scripps), and founder (in 1920) of the world's first commercial radio station, Detroit's WWJ-first to broadcast U.S. election returns, one of the first with symphony concerts, play-by-play accounts of ball games; of a heart ailment; at Lake Orion, Mich...
Last winter Arturo Toscanini, the white-maned little titan, was beginning to look and move like a man nearing 84. Because of his ailing left knee, he was forced to cancel eight of his NBC concerts. When he flew off to Italy last spring, few of his musicians expected to have the privilege of trembling under one of his tirades again. Moreover, in midsummer came more bad news: the death of his wife Carla, 73, who had been his caretaker and counselor for 54 years. His friends feared he was through. They misjudged their man. Last week the old Arturo...