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Directed by LARRY YUST...
Screenplay by LARRY YUST, HOWARD KAMINSKY and BENNETT SIMS...
...Fund for the Republic, was commissioned by the Ford Foundation to study how to make the press more self-responsible. Last week he took the $50,000-a-year job as editor in chief of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. As EB's 19th-editor, Ashmore replaces Walter Yust, who died last February after 22 years...
Died. Walter Yust, 65, tall, stooped, onetime newsman (Philadelphia Evening Ledger and Press) and literary editor (Philadelphia Public Ledger), longtime (from 1938 to last month) editor in chief of all Encyclopaedia Britannica publications; of a heart attack; in Evanston...
Buying cheap (2? a word for articles) and selling dear ($298 to $1,500 a set), the Britannica has since earned the university some $5,500,000. Its contributors include 43 Nobel Prizewinners. Editor-in-Chief Walter Yust and a staff of 150 keep a continuous watch on the timeliness of its 43,512 articles. Editor Yust, onetime Philadelphia literary critic, defends the Britannica against an array of complaints, including pro-British bias (although the encyclopedia has been U.S.-owned for half a century) and Americanization. A more serious objection sometimes heard: that the work is too scholarly for laymen...