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...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...
...John Wayne ("Big Dick") Richards did not found suburban Chicago's Lake Forest Academy, but he made it a Midwestern counterpart of the exclusive Eastern prep schools. He also introduced the Richards Plan, a highly successful system of rotating class periods and supervised study. Last week Big Dick, wasted by an illness in which he had lost 45 lb., announced that in July he would turn over his job to a successor: slender, athletic Harvardman E. Francis Bowditch, 29, now headmaster of Indianapolis' Park School...
Died. Clara Elizabeth Laughlin, 67, oldtime Midwestern novelist and friend of Poet James Whitcomb Riley, who turned to writing travel books after World War I, published the highly successful So You're Going to - series; in Chicago...
Railroad spokesmen have repeatedly affirmed their readiness to handle any foreseeable defense traffic. But the prospect of extraordinary wheat loadings, on top of the industrial boom, has caused some Midwestern roads to look around for a hedge. Third week in February, car-loadings on the Kansas City Southern ran 25% ahead of 1940, on the Frisco and St. Louis Southwestern 20%. Others felt the abnormal rush for coal, U. S. freight item No. 1. New York Central and Baltimore & Ohio, both big coal carriers, moved more freight that week than during 1940's traffic peak in October...
Chief white singer was Burl Ives (full name: Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives), who sang a ballad he picked up in Ohio, The Bold Soldier. A onetime Eastern Illinois State Teachers College footballer, Burl Ives bummed around the U. S. with a guitar. His specialty is Midwestern songs. The foot-tapping Golden Gate Quartet (TIME, Jan. 27), who went to Washington by taxi ($100 round trip), sang Noah and Things Are Gonna Come My Way. Negro Joshua White, who sings at rehearsals with a lighted cigaret behind his ear, sang John Henry, Man Goin' Roun' Takin' Names...