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...Hedges. Member of a wealthy tobacco family (Manhattan's Cullman Bros. Inc.) that owns some 80,000 shares (2.5%) of Philip Morris common stock, Joe Cullman graduated from Yale ('35), worked as a $15-a-week cigar-store clerk and a cigar maker in Cuba before joining Webster Tobacco Co., where he became Eastern sales manager in 1938. After four years in the Navy during World War II, he went to Columbia University with the idea of becoming a history professor, instead joined Benson & Hedges as vice president under his father, whose company controlled Benson & Hedges, helped boost...
...Webster neatly summarizes the conventional, science-minded attitude: an approach to truth that bypasses "ordinary sense perception" adds up to nothing but "vague speculation." Yet mystics-the experimentalists of religion-may not seem so unscientific to a mid-20th century psychiatrist. This is the case in a new book, The Cloud of Unknowing (Julian Press; $4), a psychologist's rendition of one of the great mystical classics of Christianity...
Operation Mad Ball (Columbia), according to some wacky prerelease publicity, is based on the bestselling book, Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary. Anybody who enjoyed the book had better skip the picture-as usual, Hollywood has changed the story. The new one does not end with "zymurgy." but with "clinch."' And besides, it sounds less like Webster than the Army Manual, read upside down and backwards at the top of a top kick's lungs. In short, OMB is routine regimental farce, but fast and snafurious...
...sorts of math problems for troubled bobby-soxers. "Geometry," he found, "they just don't dig." So many questions poured in that Waldron soon realized the station's "reference library-a 1943 Who's Who, a 1950 Information Please Almanac and a big, beat-up Webster's Dictionary" would never see him through...
...Theory of American Literature, Howard Mumford Jones asserts that American academic aversion to its national literature was due to its abhorrence of the clean break which American authors were trying to make with European literary tradition. Noah Webster called for a purely American language, and a literature not based on "the mouldering pillars of antiquity...