Word: stringfellow
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...sound like conversation, not a debate," says Producer Crothers, "as though the listener had sneaked up on the men at a cocktail party and overheard them." Nowadays the panel speakers shift every week, but back in 1940, when Invitation started as an offshoot of the "Great Books" program of Stringfellow Barr, former president of Maryland's St. John's College, there was a permanent panel. It was abandoned, says Crothers, because after a few months "everyone had explored everyone else's mind - it was as if they had been closeted in an igloo...