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Currently at eBay under "Henry Hazlitt", among the hundreds of old c. 1946-1966 Newsweeks and Reader's Digests, the latter ... digesting ... Henry's columns in the former: |
TIME WILL RUN BACK: A NOVEL ABOUT THE REDISCOVERY OF CAPITALISM
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Compare to $15.00 and up for the same edition at Bookfinder.
Now if they'd do a graphic novel of it, it might resemble the one, above, pictured among the "Similar items". You go, Henry - though unlike the Time in his title, he appears, with all the
Will in the world, to be Running forward rather than Back ...
Among the seller's other items:
ESAR'S COMIC DICTIONARY by Evan Esar 1960
"THE LAUGHING WEBSTER ... Arranged Laffabetically from A to Z ... "Thinking About Religion: A Reader Ivan Strenski
Here is a textbook anthology from 2006, published by Wiley-Blackwell and edited by a professor of religious studies at the University of California at Riverside, that includes among its reprinted luminaries from centuries past Henry Hazlitt, in the form of "The Neurosis of Civilization", his September 17, 1930 review in The Nation, of which he was then literary editor,The article discusses the book "Civilization and Its Discontents," by Sigmund Freud and authorized translation by Joan Riviere. The book is written for the most part with remarkable lucidity and one is indebted to the translator for carrying the original over into an English prose highly attractive on its own account. Suggestive and shrewd as it is in its detailed discussions, however, the book lacks a certain structural clarity. It frequently misleads the reader regarding the direction of its argument and it would be difficult to summarize its winding course and numerous subordinate discussions. Freud begins with the assertion that life is too hard for people and that one is driven to various palliative remedies.
of Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud:
"While it has not always been feasible to provide both modern and historical contemporary critics for each classical theoretical statement, readers will find what I believe is a fresh list of critics, typically passed over in most anthologies of this sort. These include Karl Menninger or Henry Hazlitt on Freud, Georges Sorel on Renan, David Hume on Herbert of Cherbury, Sam Preus on Spinoza, Winston Davis and Sidney Hook on Weber, William Dwight Whitney*
*On the great C19 linguist and first editor of the incomparable Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, see my post from April 7, 2012, The Lex Luther
on Max Muller, Robert Alun Jones on Durkheim, George W. Stocking Jr. on Frazer, Tylor, and Malinowski. Likewise, substantial theoretical thinkers sometimes neglected in standard surveys receive a much-deserved hearing. Here I refer to such figures as Herbert of Cherbury, Spinoza, Ernest Renan, William Brede Kristensen, or Ninian Smart. A further innovation of the present Reader is the occasional 'find' an entry typically discovered in an obscure or virtually inaccessible source. This may take the form of a conversation of theorists with each other, as in James Frazer's obituary of Robertson Smith, or Claude Levi-Strauss's 1942 memoir on the occasion of Malinowski's sudden death, which appeared in a short-lived surrealist magazine published in New York City during the darker days of Levi-Strauss's exile there during the Second World War. To underline the point that the thinkers in this Reader often made (and rode) cultural waves in their times, I have deliberately included a good number of critical entries drawn from sources appealing to the general educated reading public, such as the renowned American weekly magazine of opinion, The Nation."
In addition to Hazlitt's review of Freud's famous book, the editor also includes, from The Nation in 1930, "Capitalism and Protestantism", the review by Sidney Hook in the October 29 issue of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber. He also includes Hazlitt's The Foundations of Morality in the anthology's extensive list of Recommended Reading.
Am MERCURY February 1934 HENRY HAZLITT WILLIAM FAULKNER
Contributors to this among the three or four immediate post-Mencken issues Hazlitt edited before his falling-out with publisher Alfred A. Knopf ("I was no executive", I recall Henry saying in an old interview) also include Oswald "Decline of the West" Spengler, the Southern Agrarian Donald Davidson, and a young R.P. Blackmur, later a pillar of the Princeton English faculty and among the most gifted critics of his generation.
Henry Hazlitt Interviews Sen. Joseph McCarthy 1952 on CD also 1954 interview
I was really hoping for a
Longines as my sponsor - and I got one ... and no, the on-camera announcer for the Longines Chronoscope,
Frank Knight, is not the great Chicago economist of the same name. You can look them up Now you mention it, I've never seen them both in the same Wikipedia entry.
"Joseph McCarthyRadio Interview. On CD. FREE Shipping anywhere in the USA and Canada…….Considered to be the most controversial politician of his day. Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin sent shock waves across the land by going to great lengths to tell anyone who would listen that there were Communists in the State department. Needless to say the investigations and public hearings were the talk of the land during this time. In this interview fromOctober 3, 1954 McCarthy is "Grilled" by the press, asking him the most penetrating of questions, you almost are uncomfortable listening as thepress is all over McCarthy. Not only is this recording very historic, but it will give you perhaps the first time listening to McCarthy trying give his case. The 1952 interview is conducted by the brilliant economist Henry Hazlitt".
That 1952 television interview with McCarthy, among the 71 episodes of Longines Chronoscope with Hazlitt as co-panelist from June 11, 1951 through June 1, 1953, is also online. The staff of the National Archives has prepared an annotated index of the episodes of that series, in which Hazlitt and such co-panelists as William F. Buckley (in his pre-NR days at The American Mercury) and Karl Hess, then at Newsweek (and far and away the most often, William Bradford Huie, editor and publisher of The American Mercury, with whom Hazlitt's friend Max Eastman also co-interviewed on one episode), interviewed such among the leading statesman, generals, pols, business leaders, authors and entertainers of the day as, e.g.,, Rep. FDR, Jr., and Joseph and Charlie McCarthy, and John Foster Dulles Airport on such among the burning issues of the hour as McCarthyism, Edgar and Candice Bergen, and UFOs, the last among which I did not make up (the Archives' transcription of the panelists' names is not always of 100% accuracy, as in that for Newsweek reporter and later NR anti-Communist investigative stalwart
Stelladano!
Ralph de Toledano - as Ralph Stelladano!):
... OCTOBER 17, 1951 Participants: Henry Hazlitt, author and political economist, contributing editor of Newsweek, and publisher/editor of Freeman magazine, interviewed by Stanley High and Lt. Col. Ansel E. Talbert. Topics: British elections, economic aspects of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and French Communist Party. (200LW19)
No, not that John Lodge, he said, w'Haywardly enough, Justin time.
... MARCH 28, 1952 Participants: John Lodge, Governor of Connecticut, interviewed by Henry Hazlitt and William F. Buckley. Topics: Support for the Eisenhower Presidential candidacy, Lodge's opinion of Senator Robert A. Taft, and his appraisal of Eisenhower's political views. (200LW605)
... AUGUST 4, 1952 Participants: Willy Ley, scientist and author of Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel, interviewed by William Bradford Huie and Henry Hazlitt. Topic: Flying saucers. (200LW124)
... SEPTEMBER 29, 1952 Participants: Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R-WI) interviewed by William Bradford Huie and Henry Hazlitt. Topics: Review of McCarthy's speaking tour in support of the Republican national ticket and against the Truman administration, interpretation of his recent senatorial victory, and origin of the term "McCarthyism." (200LW144)
... NOVEMBER 7, 1952 Participants: Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor of Maryland, interviewed by Henry Hazlitt and Karl Hess. Topics: Assessment of Presidential election, balancing the budget, results of the Eisenhower trip to Korea, and the main effect of the Eisenhower Presidential election victory. (200LW160)
Television Interviews, 1951-1955
A Catalog of Longines Chronoscope Interviews in the National Archives
Compiled by Sarah L. Shamley
Published for the National Archives and Records Administration
By the National Archives Trust Fund Board
1990
By the National Archives Trust Fund Board
1990
Table of Contents
Preface
The holdings of the National Archives include a wide variety of donated documentary materials that supplement official records of the U.S. government. Many of these donated materials are the products of broadcast journalism: newsreels, documentaries, and radio and television news programs. Among the latter materials is a collection of kinescopes of the television interview series, Chronoscope, which was broadcast on CBS-affiliated television stations from 1951 to 1955. This publication, "Television Interviews, 1951-1955: A Catalog of Longines Chronoscope Interviews in the National Archives", is a finding aid to the Chronoscope interviews in the custody of the Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Branch of the National Archives. The catalog includes a brief description of each program, identifying the participants and the major topics they discussed.
Guests on Chronoscope were the newsmakers of the era: congressmen, diplomats, senators, statesmen, and national leaders in a variety of fields. The topics they discussed were those considered newsworthy in the 1950s, including: agriculture, atomic energy, communism, the economy, elections, foreign relations, Korea, labor, McCarthyism, nuclear weapons, the People's Republic of China, the Soviet Union, taxation, and the United Nations. The index illustrates the full range of research or documentary possibilities. It is our hope that this publication will make a unique historical resource more accessible to the research and educational communities.
It is a primary goal of the National Archives' publication program to increase the visibility and accessibility of its archival holdings. Finding aids such as this one have been prepared at the National Archives since 1940 when the first general "Guide to the Material in the National Archives" was published. Over time, new editions of this general guide have been published, and supplementary guides have been prepared focusing on specific subsets of documentary materials. In this latter category are three of our most recent publications: "A Guide to Pre-Federal Records in the National Archives" (1989),"The Holocaust, Israel, and the Jews: Motion Pictures in the National Archives" (1989), and "War and Conflict: Selected Images from the National Archives, 1795-1970" (1990). A listing of in-print National Archives publications appears in General Information Leaflet 3, "Select List of Publications of the National Archives and Records Administration".
While "Television Interviews" is intended to provide access to the Chronoscope interviews, it could well serve as a starting point for more extensive research in the records of newsworthy federal programs. We hope users of this guide will explore the rich visual heritage of our nation that is part of the National Archives.
DON W. WILSON
Archivist of the United States
Archivist of the United States
Introduction
Longines-Wittnauer, a company well known for its watches and clocks, donated to the National Archives motion picture kinescopes of its television interview series, "Chronoscope," which was broadcast on CBS-affiliated television stations from 1951 to 1955. The National Archives accepted this offer because of the collection's historical significance and because of its research potential unlimited by restrictions on access, duplication, or use.
Although the chief purpose of the National Archives is the preservation of the permanently valuable records of the United States government, donations of private papers or audiovisual materials closely related to federal government activities may also be accepted when they have sufficient historical value. Such gifts are placed in the National Archives Gift Collection, which contains extensive holdings of news programs, newsreels, documentaries, and radio news and public affairs broadcasts from organizations such as ABC News, Mutual Radio, CBS News, and National Public Radio. Recordings donated by these organizations provide audiovisual coverage of speeches, press conferences, interviews, and events that supplement the official documentation created by federal agencies that have not systematically made audiovisual recordings of their press appearances.
The donation of the "Chronoscope" series takes on considerable importance in view of the scarcity of television materials showing early news programs or public affairs coverage. In the era before videotape, many news programs were broadcast live and were never copied. Kinescopes or filmed recordings were rarely used to record news programs. Indeed, only the introduction of the 3/4-inch videocassette into the broadcast industry has made the systematic recording of news programs practical and cost-effective.
Copyright protection still governs access to almost all early television news programs, a restriction unlikely to be changed even if the materials are donated to a public archives or library. Longines-Wittnauer, however, both the sponsor and copyright owner, has donated its rights in its programs, making them available for research and duplication for any purpose.
Like the press interview programs "Face the Nation" or "Meet the Press," "Chronoscope" featured people in the news who could speak with authority on the issues of the day or who were the center of the news themselves. Hubert H. Humphrey, J. William Fulbright, Robert A. Taft, John F. Kennedy, and many others, including Joseph R. McCarthy, discuss political and economic topics during their "Chronoscope" interviews. Dean Rusk, John Foster Dulles, Paul G. Hoffman, W. Averell Harriman, Clare Boothe Luce, and many other diplomats discuss American foreign policy, particularly with reference to the Korean war and U.S.-Soviet relations in the cold war. Many foreign leaders are also interviewed and share their perspectives on such issues as "the two Chinas," world trade, communist insurgency, mutual defense treaties, the Arab-Israeli conflict, petroleum resources, and fishing rights. There is much discussion of domestic issues in the United States by important spokespersons including George Meany on labor, Ezra Taft Benson on national farm policies, Eleanor Roosevelt on the American image, Norman Thomas on civil liberties, and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., on civil rights. Among the other issues discussed are immigration, American culture and civilization, political campaign practices, civil defense, housing, national defense, juvenile delinquency, mental health, status of women, and illegal drug traffic. In short, the "Chronoscope" series is an audiovisual gallery of many of the principal personages of the early fifties.
Originating in New York, Chronoscope was telecast weekly on Mondays from 11:00 to 11:15 p.m. on the CBS network. From June 11, 1951, the date of the earliest surviving issue, the show was broadcast Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings through April 29, 1955, with one hiatus from June to August 1953.
"Chronoscope" closely followed the format of other early television interview programs such as "Meet the Press," "Keep Posted", and "Face the Nation." The guest changed with each program. (Appendix A contains a guest list.) The programs, each 15 minutes in length, were produced and directed by Alan Cartoun under the aegis of CBS. Frank Knight was the host and announcer, and David Ross occasionally substituted. The host narrated the Longines-Wittnauer commercials that concluded each broadcast. Two interviewers called "co-editors" were present for each program. Appearing as coeditors most frequently were William Bradford Huie, publisher and editor of "American Mercury" magazine; Henry Hazlitt, a political economist, contributing editor of "Newsweek," and publisher of "Freeman" magazine; and Larry Lesueur, a reporter for CBS News. The second interviewer changed each week throughout the series; many of the interviewers were journalists, editors, reporters, or television correspondents. (Appendix B contains a list of coeditors)
The show was telecast live, and kinescopes subsequently were sent to stations around the country for local broadcasts. The kinescope recordings were made on 16mm black-and-white film by a modified camera aimed at a picture tube while the live program was in progress. This accounts for the film's relatively flat, two-dimensional appearance. The programs were visually static, utilizing two or three cameras in a book-lined studio with the Longines emblem prominently displayed in the background.
More than 600 programs were broadcast, but the collection contains only 482 shows. Heat from a fire at a Longines-Wittnauer storage facility damaged some films before their transfer to the National Archives. Some programs were destroyed; others were not received with the donation.
The programs are listed in this publication by broadcast date. Names of the guests and interviewers for each program are given, and the main topics discussed are indicated. Only the extant programs are described.
The CBS program library in New York maintains a log of all programs telecast and related press releases. Beyond this documentation, neither CBS nor Longines-Wittnauer retains any records of "Chronoscope" or its production.
Reproductions of the programs listed are available for purchase in film, video, or audio formats. A current price list can be obtained by writing to the Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Branch (NNSM), National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC, 20408.
William T. Murphy wrote the introduction; Sarah Shamley, Valerie Meehan, and Leslie C. Waffen researched and described the programs in this list; and Maxine Piper prepared the index.
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