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...Commerce stoutly supported Larry Bell against "the threat of Wall Street domination." Actually, the best arguments for both sides were indisputable matters of fact. Last year Bell Aircraft had an operating loss of some $2,300,000 (reduced by tax carry-backs to $657,900), which would hardly warrant any new boosts for Bell. On the other hand, the company now has a backlog of $23,600,000, is in production on its new helicopter. It hopes to turn out 500 of them this year...
...English Department is broad enough in scope, with enough worthwhile courses and teaching, to warrant concentration by almost anyone with a bent for literature. At the same time it provides an easy outlet for the student with no desire to over-specialize in any one field. The catalogue is complete with both narrow and survey courses and although the former are more competently and exhaustively handled by men export in their respective fields, such traditional crowd drawers as English 5, 7, and 23 give some return for the considerable reading required...
...sure that the enthusiasm will be enough to warrant our sponsoring a really great weekend...
...tutorial seems to be that of grades--usually by means of a line drawn at the bottom of Group III. But letter grades and receptivity do not always walk hand in hand. The invaluable aid which face-to-face instruction can provide, especially in the social studies, should warrant placing tutorial on a voluntary rather than an academic basis, opening it to all save that fraction whose indifference is congenital...
Aside from that involved in his charges, only one reason could be a legitimate basis for the dropping of Shirer by his sponsor or the Columbia Broadcasting System. The action would be justified if his listening audience were insufficient to warrant his continuance. But this fact does not enter into the picture, inasmuch as his latest Hooper rating was the highest of any CBS program during the Sunday day-time schedule. If, therefore, it can be assumed that any commercial motive for Shirer's dismissal was ruled out, the only possible reason is the one in his accusation: the sponsor...