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April 11: George V. Allen, director of the Harvard Square Information Booth, assures visitors, "We've never had it so good...
...curiosity," Moore's method is to let the child "control" his learning. As the child strikes typewriter keys, an instructor names the character printed. (One delighted child hit the asterisk key 75 times to test teacher's stamina.) Sitting beside his "student" in a gadget-filled booth, which has 60-odd switches to pique the child's curiosity, the instructor also projects the chosen letters on a screen. After each half-hour typing session, the child prints the letters on a blackboard, soon works up to complete words and eventually to sentences...
Westerns and private-eye shows offer escape into a world where men are men and women know their place. But situation comedies-which, this season, seem destined to outweigh saddle and sleuth operas-have a far more obscure and disturbing appeal. In their denatured apotheosis of Booth Tarkington and Clarence
...opening night their repertory-or their improvisations-came at times from the common hoard of satire and seemed aimed at the common herd. But even with phone-booth frustrations or bear-hugging mothers, with Tennessee Williams-type drama or the P.T.A., there were happy surprises. In fact, by combining the last two themes-by having Elaine act as P.T.A. chairman for an evening of Art and Mike act as the Southern playwright speaker-they reached the evening's peak. They reached it partly, perhaps, because each did a monologue in his own uninterrupted, unblurred style. When the two play...
...original grant of $2000 by the Weinmann family, to be followed by gifts from friends of Weinmann, has enabled WHRB to build the modern booth...