Word: randomness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HORN (243 pp.)-John Clellon Holmes-Random House...
...mathematical method, Dr. Stuckert constructs a "genetic probability table" that shows the changing composition of the population since 1750. To do this he assumes that "the probability of persons classified as white mating with persons classified as Negro is one-twentieth of what would be expected if mating were random." In a population with 90% white and 10% Negro, for example, the probability of mixed matings works out at 9 per 1,000. Dr. Stuckert admits that this figure cannot be exact, but he says it agrees with many sociological studies. His other figures (e.g., immigration and natural increase...
...ENEMY CAMP (561 pp.)-Jerome Weidman - Random House...
Book Publisher (Random House) and TV Paneluminary (What's My Line?) Bennett Cerf gave a group of Arizona businessmen the line on the modern novel: "There have been too many in which some young man is looking forward, backward or sideways in anger. Or in which some Southern youth is being chased through the magnolia bushes by his aunt. She catches him on page 28 with horrid results...
...Bulldog Drummond (1929), Colman soon established the cultured air of weary British dignity that became as crisp and negotiable as a sterling note. His best-known films followed in the late '30s and early '40s-A Tale of Two Cities, Lost Horizon, The Prisoner of Zenda, Random Harvest-but his only Oscar came with A Double Life in 1947. The narrator's role in The Story of Mankind (1957) completed his list of more than 100 film credits...