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Small Multitude. Just who the listeners are, no one at CBS is quite sure, but the largest single group is in California. "We can't explain that, either," says Crothers. "Maybe it's because the program reaches the West Coast at 9 in the morning." One California station manager, after listening with a puzzled frown to Invitation, replaced it with a local show. He received only 37 letters of protest, but was so impressed by the names of the writers' - educators, judges, doctors and other leading citizens - that he quickly put Invitation back...
...Bestseller. Concentrating on 570 of the most common words, Lorge found that the simplest ones usually have the largest number of meanings. A word like open, for instance, can mean uncovered (open boat), not closed (open door), unrestricted (open to use), forthright (open in manner), or not frozen (open soil). Even little by has 41 meanings...
Edward A. Crane '35 was elected Mayor of Cambridge Monday by the Council at Cambridge City Hall. Crane, who received the largest number of votes in the election last November, was given the office on the first ballot. Two years ago when the Plan E government elected its first mayor, the voting took 1321 ballots...
...Laugh. In Italy, which boasts Europe's largest Communist Party outside Russia, Moscow has so far permitted Boss Palmiro Togliatti to follow freewheeling, flexible tactics in his pursuit of power. Many Communist workers and peasants understand little of Marx's ideology and are permitted deviations (e.g., open attachment to the Roman Catholic Church) which might mean a purge in more tightly disciplined Communist Parties. But, proclaimed the Red Party newspaper Unita last week, "there is a need to eliminate . . . the spirit of indifference and easy living...