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...81st year, William Heard Kilpatrick is still a formidable figure to U.S. educators-a courtly, silver-haired scholar who next to John Dewey has been the nation's foremost apostle of progressive education. Some schoolmen have revered him and some have damned him, but all have felt his influence. Last week scholars and educators from all over the U.S. assembled in a Manhattan ballroom to celebrate his fourscore years. And last week, in a new biography by ex-Student Samuel Tenenbaum,*readers could learn just what his influence has been in the U.S. school system...
Space cadets will surely enjoy the show at the Hayden Planetarium, 81st and Central Park West. "The Conquest of Space" has five showings on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays; three otherwise...
Muscleman Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, who made a parachute jump on his 81st birthday, changed his mind about parachuting into the Niagara River to celebrate his 83rd, decided instead to mark the event at home in Dansville, N.Y. by simply eating a whole wheat cake and announcing a prize of $1,000 for the best three-act play about his life...
...81st birthday in Manhattan, Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch posed beside a mammoth birthday cake ("I can't tell you who sent it. The same person who has sent it to me for 50 years would be very annoyed with me if I told who it was") and gave some advice for the troubled times: "Don't bellyache, Get out and work-this country will pull through...
...Some 24 Inches." He said in effect: Congress can no longer handle the budget intelligently. Once, under the 1946 Reorganization Act, the Appropriations Committee was well staffed with clerks and statisticians. It no longer is. The committee's staff, charged Wigglesworth, was "decimated" by the Democratic-controlled 81st Congress "in clear violation of the spirit of that act." Wigglesworth and his colleagues found themselves unable to form any opinion about items in the budget involving hundreds of millions of dollars...