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...forbidden to read. A department store saleslady was getting ready for two long-deferred vacation trips-to Florida and Europe. A civil engineer found himself something of a celebrity among his co-workers in New York City's Department of Parks All have only recently returned to a workaday world that they had nearly forgotten while serving as jurors in the trial of U.S. v. Samuel Garfield, et al. in Manhattan's Foley Square courthouse. As jurors, they had seen 1,890 exhibits and heard 109 witnesses give 26,731 pages of testimony in the longest criminal trial...
...Gunther tells it, he came to this ambition because he was miscast as a workaday reporter. A Vienna-based correspondent for the Chicago Daily News, he preferred writing features ("I was ravenously interested in human beings") to spot news. "I have scarcely ever had a scoop in my life," he writes, "and it seemed to me, then as now, abysmally silly to break a neck by beating the opposition by a few seconds on a story." Gunther decided that the tumultuous personalities of Europe-Hitler, Kemal Ataturk, Léon Blum-deserved a full-length book. He did some legwork...
Most lecturers do not have this impact, of course, but even for the ordinary, workaday lecturer there are several advantages in a personal delivery. For one thing, if he is there facing his students the lecturer can see what goes over and what doesn't, and he can thus expand and clarify confusing points. This can be particularly important when dealing with highly technical or highly complex material...
...Crusader's tent. To Spence, it is the heart of the cathedral's theme of unity. In another corner, the Chapel of Christ the Servant looks out through plain windows on the reality of grimy Coventry below, attempting to project the cathedral into Coventry's workaday world. Near by, the Chapel of Geth-semane-fenced off by a wrought-iron grille designed by Spence in the shape of a crown of thorns-is a tiny alcove for private worship...
Dike Breached. But as the Digest's readership grew, so did Wallace's urge to print more surefire Digest titles than other magazines were supplying him. In 1930 he published the Digest's first original article-a study of the effect of music on workaday efficiency-and the dike was breached. From then on, the number of original contributions to the Digest-a fair share of them "planted" first in other magazines-crept steadily upward. Today, they constitute 70% of every issue...