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...lecturer he's no wizard," said one undergraduate about Arthur Maass, "but as a teacher he's terrific." Reports of those who have worked closely with him, stressing both his high degree of personal interest and dynamism, place Maass among the few men in the University who have devoted their lives to teaching as well as research...
...worst or the strongest, but because his rapid advance from obscurity was attended by the greatest stir. The stir was not only on the surface of events: in his strange way, this strange old man represented one of the most profound problems of his time. Around this dizzy old wizard swirled a crisis of human destiny...
...leadership of the non-Communist world, the U.S. has some dire responsibilities to shoulder. One of them is to meet the fundamental moral challenge posed by the strange old wizard who lives in a mountainous land and who is, sad to relate...
Political Geiger counters quivered in West Berlin last week. A political refugee who slipped across the line from East Germany was identified as Lieut. Colonel Fedor Nikolaevich Astakhov of the Red army. Astakhov is a geological wizard, a winner of the Stalin Prize, and until recently in charge of all technical operations in the Russian-run uranium mines in southeastern Germany. Allied intelligence would not confirm, but did not deny, that the new Soviet "defector of colonel's rank" is Astakhov. If he is, the West has found a source of atomic intelligence as useful as Britain...
Though Mr. Wizard has a sponsor (the Cereal Institute), NBC thinks enough of it as a public service program to furnish the time free of charge and none of the 54 TV stations carrying the 30-minute show gets any money for it. Chicago's Federated Advertising Club was so impressed it created an award especially for Mr. Wizard. But the most surprising tribute came from the Voice of America; it entered a standing order for recorded transcripts of each show...