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...Random House had so many literary children it didn't know what to do. Its latest offspring, the 25? "Wonder Books" for children, had sold 2,000,000 copies in six weeks, and threatened to keep Random House so busy that it would not have time for other books. Yet it hated to curb such a promising child. Last week, Random House found a solution. It sold the children's books to Wonder Books, Inc., a new company owned jointly by reprint publishers Grosset & Dunlap (60%) and the Curtis Publishing...
...modern parents can carry their modernism too far. Dr. Flanders Dunbar, 46, mother of a seven-year-old daughter and author of the 1947 bestseller Mind and Body (TIME, Oct. 6, 1947), sounds the warning in her new book, out this week, Your Child's Mind and Body (Random House...
...goats," who has scoffed at the notion of ESP, scored considerably less than mere random choices would give...
Intelligent criticism of communism--or even suspected communism--requires more than a hasty attack under the name of a temporary group. Any affirmation of the advantages of democratic government must rest on positive ideas, not on random shots at the other side--and the Soviets will certainly make propaganda grist--of this weekend. We must use propaganda ourselves, and use it well, which is something that neither Schlesinger nor the State Department apparently considered when they went after the Reds in the Waldorf-Astoria woodpile...
Accent on Quizzes. Wrote Beloff: "The habits of spoon-feeding that the school child acquires are not easily abandoned at the college level. Instruction by lecture and random discussion with the reading of prescribed passages from prescribed textbooks, the whole tested by examinations largely factual in character ... are hardly the way to encourage either independence of mind or maturity of judgment...