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Margery Sterling, who took a master's degree in home economics at Cornell, is a young housewife who knows how to turn out a lemon pie. One day husband Robert, a chemist in Westinghouse Electric Corp.'s Pittsburgh laboratories, got to wondering if anything on earth was fluffier or lighter than Margery's meringue topping. That helped him along with a scientific idea...
Seeds of Contemplation (New Directions; $3) is already riding to a whacking success in the high-altitude wake of an earlier book, The Seven Storey Mountain (TIME, Oct. 11), by the same young Trappist monk. Both books are the work of 34-year-old Thomas Merton, who has retired from the world to live under a monastic rule so strict that it forbids even the self-indulgence of talking. Trendspotters have begun to wonder whether some of the U.S. reading public, in its search for peace, subconsciously wishes it could follow...
...first report of such letters came from Kentucky three weeks ago, then from other states. The sender, whoever he was, gave the stunt a chain-letter twist by urging "dear miss" to send copies to five or six other "innocent and unsuspecting young people." Who in Seattle had it in for the U.S. public-school system? A crackpot, was one likely answer. Mrs. Pearl A. Wanamaker, superintendent of public instruction for the state of Washington, thought that too much time and too many postage stamps were involved; it sounded more like Communists to her. Last week the National Education Association...
...judgment entirely. She was a vivacious, black-haired beauty, who liked to keep her own affairs a mystery. She had been born abroad (Portugal, some friends guessed), but she was raised in the U.S.-perhaps in Virginia. She was working in the library at Princeton University when young Junius found...
...Traitor (by Herman Wouk; produced by Jed Harris) turns something very much in the news into something very much of the theater. It concerns Professor Allen Carr (Wesley Addy), a brilliant young atomic scientist who feels that the only hope for peace is for the U.S. to share its atomic secrets with the U.S.S.R. Then, reasons the professor, war would prove annihilating for both sides. Carr has begun to pass information along to Communist agents when a U.S. Naval Intelligence squad catches him redhanded. Instead of arresting him as a traitor, they successfully appeal to him as a patriot...