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...idea originally occurred around 1915 to Columbia's Musician-Novelist John ("Roaring Jack") Erskine. The Encyclopaedia Britannica, owned by the University of Chicago (TIME, Feb. 1), earmarked $400,000 to prepare the Hutchins Edition of approximately 100 great books. The University's Vice President William Burnett Benton called this "the backfire approach in bringing educational ideas to the public against the invested interests of education." The backfire is scheduled to reach the public...
...vice president of Charles Scribner's Sons. The cartoonist went to Princeton ('31), there art-edited the Princeton Tiger. He sold his first drawings to Judge, College Humor and the old Life. After college he studied at Manhattan's famed Art Students League under Thomas Hart Benton. Says Darrow of this training: "He taught me how to roll Bull Durham cigarets." Darrow's first New Yorker appearance was a study of two girl nudists admiring a male fellow nudist: "Last night I saw him in a blue serge suit. Zowie...
...fill-in on these phenomena, he and his friend, University of Chicago's Vice President William Benton (now C.E.D.'s vice chairman), had planned a meet-the-professors business round table just before Pearl Harbor stopped such extracurricular activities...
...news brightened and postwar planning became respectable, Hoffman's and Benton's plans merged with those of Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones's Business Advisory Council. Jones and B.A.C. had also begun to worry about industry's place in the peace. Hoffman was already vice chairman of B.A.C. When C.E.D. was set up last September, he was almost automatically head...
Four days later Laski, who writes a syndicated column for the Chicago Sun, reported his reactions to Messrs. Johnston & Benton. He was still "bewildered" by their blindness to what he considered the inevitable direction in which the world is moving. "Alongside their outlook," he wrote, "Churchill can really only be described as a left-wing radical...