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Sociology A: "While opinions of [Pitirim] Sorokin vary from crackpot to genius, he is still one of the commanding personalities at Harvard. ... It will do you no harm to hear Sorokin on Sorokin at least for half year...
...eight years since the first licensed Drive-In opened for business, the then crackpot cinema sideline has expanded into a $3,000,000 industry supporting 52 theaters, with twelve others abuilding and 50 more contracted for. Most of them are in the temperate South, whose largest chain, George Wilby & Associates, is so sold on Drive-Ins that it is liquidating its indoor cinemas. Despite the fact that producers refuse to sell Drive-Ins anything but old A pictures, punk Bs and westerns, most of them manage to make a respectable profit. Evidence that the producers may change their minds...
...engaged in 1940 would be required; and for a 77% increase in 1942, 6,047,200 more (80% over 1940). The 1942 increase amounts to more than one-sixth of all nonagricultural, non-military employment in 1940. For Mr. Dunn such increases come under the heading of crackpot. The expansionists reply that a way must be found to expand and produce at the same time, even if it means much tougher consumer rationing...
Fact No. 1. The main fact was simple enough. Rudolf Hess, only two places removed from the leadership of Germany, had quit Germany under his own steam and gone to the enemy country, where he was imprisoned. In all the howling vortex of dope-stories, nut-stories, crackpot theorizing, official and amateur speculation that the Hess flight evoked, only the New York World-Telegram affected to doubt Fact No. 1. The Telegram hired a series of detective storytellers to mastermind the Hess Case. One, Lee Wright of Publishers Simon & Schuster, opined that Hess wasn't Hess...
...rehearsal, his comic gift appeared. Once when he was running over the line "ugh" for an Indian part, he remarked: "I don't know if I can sustain the emotion." Cook Book included Joe's most colossal gadget - the Fuller Construction Company Symphony Orchestra - and carried the crackpot through vaudeville and his great .Broadway days to his famed, screwily furnished home, Sleepless Hollow, at Lake Hopatcong...