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...editor of the radio March of Time since 1941. A redhaired, wry, witty compendium of universal fact and theory, Norris is also a not able Aberdeen Angus cattle raiser and barbershop tenor. Co-author of The World and America is Folklorist Carl Carmer (Listen for a Lonesome Drum), a specialist in local American history ever since he left a northern professorship to teach at the University of Alabama...
...dinner in 1940, only 100 of the original 175 were still alive ; seven had died in the past year. An alarmed member jumped to his feet and moved the appointment of a Committee on Longevity. This group discovered, among other things, that a member who' was a gallstone specialist had a gallstone without knowing it, that a hernia specialist had a hernia. The mortality rate was reduced (only one died last year) and of the 94 present survivors, ranging in age up to 80, all but ten have refused to retire...
What Manner of Man? Guderian's appointment to replace bumbling, Nazified Colonel General Kurt Zeitzler surprised military observers in the Allied capitals (and perhaps in Germany as well). The choice raised puzzling questions. Why did an Army everywhere in retreat need a tank specialist as its top planner? Was Guderian to be the strong man for the Army, or a figurehead for Hitler himself? Was his main job military (to revise Army strategy) or political (to hold the lid down during a ruthless purge of "unreliable" elements)? Was Guderian himself politically reliable, as far as the Party was concerned...
Russian-born Harvard Professor Boris Sidis had always said that if you strongly encouraged a child's intellectual curiosity he would learn faster than a jack rabbit runs. Mother Sidis, also Russian-born, was a physician,† A specialist in abnormal psychology, proud Father Sidis filled scientific journals with articles about his prodigious son, wrote a book (Philistine and Genius) urging other parents to adopt his own methods of intellectual forced feeding. "To delay is a mistake and wrong to the child," he declared. "We can at that early period awaken a love of knowledge which will persist through...
...stationed at Tufts compose the entire lineup, and the Jumbos even have a Navy coach, Chief Specialist Floyd H. Churchill. Last Saturday Tufts swamped Gresham Coast Guard...