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...Clifton Fadiman is a striking proof that a regular reviewer need not necessarily degenerate into a facile purveyor of snap judgments and hopeful guesses. He was the first--and, I think, the only-- reviewer to offer an annual mea culpa to his readers; and while he explains his introduction of this custom rather cynically in terms of space-filling rather than conscientiousness, his reader may reserve judgment...
...finally name Kalunite's parent company (Olin Corp.) to operate a Government-owned plant. But OPM did not specify whether alunite ore could be used, hemmed & hawed over location of the plant. Eichelberger wanted to build on tidewater at Tacoma, use Bonneville Dam power. He called on Clifton H. Chadwick, an OPM consulting engineer, to suggest this plan. His description of the meeting: "I was treated with all the courtesy of a cross-eyed stepchild." Later Chadwick visited the site, ruled that it was unsuitable, suggested another location "15 miles out in the woods" where construction and transportation costs...
...Budge, practically invincible during two years of professional barnstorming, it was the second defeat in two weeks. On closing day, the gallery was treated to a doubles match, billed as "Brains v. Terror," featuring Information Please's Franklin P. Adams & John Kieran v. Boris Karloff & Deems Taylor, with Clifton Fadiman in the umpire's chair. Brains won, 6-4 (one set was enough...
...biggest noise in an empty barrel for the year," said Clifton Fadiman in the New Yorker. "He is to me like God," wrote an awestruck Freshman in the Confidential Guide poll last spring. "The world's foremost sociologist," was the opinion of a professor in a midwestern university. In panning Sorokin's book on "Social and Cultural Dynamics," Fadiman referred to Harvard's Department of Sociology as a "White Russian WPA." But Professor Sorokin, who is head of that WPA, began his career by being just as red as the rest of his intellectual, revolutionary friends. Back...
First. In Aberdeen, N. C., Editor H. Clifton Blue of the Sandhill Citizen put up a prize for Aberdeen's first 1941 baby. The winner, a February arrival: H. Clifton Blue...