Word: lastingly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...last year's solid successes in the know-thyself field, The Mature Mind, picked up steam in 1950 and remained a bestseller all year. It gave way, finally, to Dianetics, a gelatinous porridge of poor man's psychoanalysis which was originally dished out, appropriately enough, in Astounding Science Fiction. Equally astounding, and to many critics equally fictitious, was Immanuel Velikovsky's pseudo-scientific Worlds in Collision, an explanation of mythological and Old Testament miracles that turned academic scientists from coast to coast purple with wrath. It made bestseller lists along with Gayelord Hauser's irresistible promise...
...Victor Serge's The Case of Comrade Tulayev, a chilling account of inhuman Soviet bureaucracy by a man who knew it well. U.S. readers left it virtually unnoticed in their rush to make a bestseller of a fat Finnish historical pudding, The Adventurer, by Mika Waltari, author of last year's bestselling The Egyptian...
Trade Note. In Sydney, Touglad Bate, 55, campaign organizer for the Australian Liberals, sued the party for $180 under the Workers' Compensation Act, claimed a right-hand deformity from handshaking during the last general election...
President Charles W. Cole of Amherst, one of the leaders of growing opposition to President Conant's plan for Universal Military Service, last night made his arguments public. Writing for Tuesday's issue of Look magazine, Cole states U.M.S. would create a two year gap in the flow of trained youth, "a break in our lifeline in the most crucial decade in our history...
President Conant will resume his duties at the University today after spending several weeks in the South, recovering from an acute diverticulitis operation he underwent last fall...