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People would have to be taught to look out for themselves. The state commission had made a start in that direction by issuing a booklet: You and the Atomic Bomb, What To Do in Case of an Atomic Attack, for free and wide dissemination. Like the advice to Junior, it was a manual for survival. But the necessity went beyond that...
...Hollywood's vigilant COMPO (Council of Motion Picture Organizations) got out a booklet quoting some 56 sociologists and psychiatrists to the effect that movies are not really responsible for juvenile delinquency. Sample dubious boost for the industry, from University of Illinois President George Stoddard: "There is little evidence that the motion picture has much effect upon the behavior of children. When a healthy high-school boy chooses to spend three hours on a sunny Saturday in a world of make-believe, the trouble is not with the motion picture but in the quality of home and neighborhood life...
...booklet also contains past departmental examinations...
Talcott Parsons, chairman of the Department of Social Relations, wrote a brief introduction to the pamphlet, and other members of the department assisted in the preparation of material for the booklet...
...nine years-so many of you will probably remember the original Background for War, 1939. This was a series TIME published on the eve of World War II, reviewing history from World War I to the invasion of Poland. Shortly after the blitzkrieg, we collected these articles into a booklet which you can still find in the homes of thousands of TIME readers. They and their friends bought more than four-and-a-half million copies at the newsstands-the greatest response to any single-issue publication that the American News Co. had distributed in 20 years...