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...Antonio started making Point of Order in 1960. The film was the brainchild of Daniel Talbot, owner of the New Yorker Theatre, but it was de Antonio who edited it and organized it into its present form. At first the two men, neither of whom had ever made a film before, hired an experienced German editor to do the cutting. "He was a real Stalinist type," de Antonio recalls. "He wanted to open the movie with the American flag waving in front of a Vermont church and end it with McCarthy's funeral. In between scenes he wanted film clips...
...They all taught a method, a discipline. They opened up new worlds. All of them blatantly ignored other people's conceptions of what should be taught in an introductory literature course, history or sociology course, biology course; and wound up by transcending these outworn labels. And each was the brainchild of a professor (and his disciples) who was teaching his personal idea all year long, and with much love. It's hard to say what we learned is the way of information (although that was there too)--but it is immediately obvious that these courses lived up to the highest...
...idea of setting up such mail order firms is the brainchild of George Campion, 37, now the president of California's American Claims Adjusters. Campion has worked through several differently named liquidator firms since he began several years ago, has a long string of arrests for petty crimes and fraud. Investigators suspect some kind of informal link between Campion and his many copiers...
...Overboard. Now that his newest brainchild has proved such a prodigy, Sonar Engineer Edwin Turner, 64, plans to deliver two prototypes to the Navy for further trials and then retire. He stresses that Doppler sonar is a supplement, not a replacement for radar and other modern navigational aids. It can function properly only in well-charted waters or far at sea, where the course picked out by its pen is not likely to run into unexpected obstacles. The Navy already has a built-in need for such a device on many of its ships, and along the world...
Miss Caroline is the whimsical, affectionate brainchild of Gerald Gardner, 34, the former Manhattan adman who soared to publishing success of sorts last year with his bestselling, cartoon-like picture paperback Who's In Charge Here? Teaming up with Artist Frank Johnson, 32, Gardner began tinkering with the Miss Caroline cartoon idea last autumn, gave it a trial run with a 128-page paperback of single cartoon panels, which has sold 250,000 copies since it was published last January, and then showed samples to newspapers...