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...Promotion of the week: Huckleberry Finn to the Great Books list of St. John's College in Annapolis...
...ambition is "to wake children up, open some windows, let in some fresh air, and establish values for them." Actor Burgess Meredith, in a friendly, easygoing manner, takes the kids on a variety of jaunts which have already included a sail down the Mississippi with Huckleberry Finn (with Boxer Sugar Ray Robinson playing Jim, the slave), a visit to Harry Truman's Kansas City office (for a chat about the Constitution), a tour of Associated Press headquarters and practice sessions with sports heroes. Excursion (no sponsor so far) succeeds in being what it sets out to be: entertainingly educational...
Shirley Barger, Helen Scott Bennett, Dorothea Bourne, Amelia Riddick Brent, Ruth Brine, Marjorie Burns, Peggy Bushong, Nancy McD. Chase, Bertha Cordeiro! Lilian Davidson, Estelle Dembeck, Lois Dickert, Anne Dirkes, Kathleen Donahue, Joan Dye, Kathryn Egan, Marta Erdman, Lenora Ersner, Jane Farley, Marcelle Farrington, Dorothy Ferenbaugh, Blanche Finn, Rosemary L. Frank, Mary Elizabeth Fremd, Judith Friedberg, Marcia Gauger, Marie Kathryn Gibbons, Jean Gutheim, Dorothy Slavin Haysteafl, Harriet Heck, Robin Hinsdale, Bonnie Claire Howells, Vera Kovarsky, E. Eleanore Larsen, Sylvia Crane Myers, Helen Newlin, Amelia North, Mary Baylor Reinhart, Margaret Rorison, Deirdre Mead Ryan, Jane Darby Scholl, Ruth Silva, M. Ava Smith...
When Huck Finn put on his patched, faded blue denim overalls to go catfishing on the Mississippi, he never dreamed that he was anticipating a fashion trend for 1953. But last week, in shops and stores across the land, no cloth was selling faster, or in more colorful varieties, than once drab, once humble denim. For the U.S. textile industry, it is the Cinderella cloth that became queen of the ball...
...Your bizarre little fable . . . which purports to be a summary outline of modern intellectual history, is certainly entertaining . . . but some of your allegations are, as Huck Finn would say, real stretchers . . . You have streamlined Western history into a simple dichotomy-Platonic Christianity the mainstream, "Gnosticism" a transient aberration . . . The U.S. is not what Plato had in mind...