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...Mossadegh. The Shah and his ministers dared not let him go free to stir Iran once more to rebellion, and chaos. They also feared to execute him for treason, and thus give him a martyr's crown. They even worried that a public trial would give the old wizard a stage from which to work his spell on Teheran's easily swayed street mobs. Mossadegh, after all his years at the game of plot, imprisonment and exile, knew too well how to capitalize on his captors' uneasiness...
...Wizard (Sat. 7 p.m., NBC). A good children's show, with the accent on science...
...magazines. As father of four of the biggest children's magazines, Publisher Hecht has copied some adult magazines exactly. Three years ago he put out a junior Reader's Digest called Children's Digest (complete with "book condensations" of Pinocchio, Glister's Last Stand, The Wizard of Oz, etc.) and watched its circulation swell to more than 500,000. Six months ago he launched Humpty Dumpty's, for children from three to seven. By last week its circulation topped...
After other papers joined their crusade, the uproar brought the FBI and state investigators into the county. As a result, 16 Klansmen, including Imperial Wizard Thomas Hamilton, were sent to jail for terms up to six years (TIME, Aug. n), 46 others were fined a total of $15,850, and the Klan was smashed...
...quite a few years, a goodly number of Professor Grant Fairbanks' colleagues in the field of speech have watched with indulgence and some amusement the earth-shaking experiments of this self-declared wizard. As one of them, I have no strenuous objections if the good professor wants to lock himself in a laboratory and determine, for example, if the burp is a plosive or a fricative or how many times per second the navel vibrates during the sounding of the intermediate "a," but I do cry out in anguish when I learn that Fairbanks is now devising ways...