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...circulation bonanza. Five newspapers printed homework outlines and instructions under streamer headlines in editions which the parents of 317,000 elementary-school pupils felt more or less duty bound to buy. Six radio stations broadcast lessons by teachers which provided a new sort of parlor game for many an adult...
Most of the 1,000,000 yearly U. S. automobile accidents occur to experienced male adult drivers (over 25 ) going straight in passenger cars in good condition on dry roads in clear daylight, and many are the variations of Arkansas's prophetic Grim Reaper that other States have concocted. They range from Oklahoma City's American Legion campaign this spring (ghosts of 85 dead paraded through the streets), to Ohio's now abandoned white graveyard crosses that marked the scenes of highway fatalities. But accidents increase and States, insurance and tire companies have about given up trying...
...Formal adult education involving any form of school discipline has never appealed to the grown-ups of any nation. But U. S. adults have long been gluttons for any form of education provided they can choose its subject, take it or leave it, play it as a sort of game in which every one can win by giving himself a higher rating than he gives to his contemporaries. Hence among best sellers not of a year but of a generation, the Boston Cooking School Cook Book and Emily Post's Etiquette rate close to the Bible. According...
...soldiers were quartered simultaneously during the War and where 1,034 are still encamped on a 7,843-acre military reservation. Reasons for the change, recommended by the House Military Affairs Committee: Camp Dix is conveniently located between New York, where foreign silver shipments arrive, and the Philadelphia mint; adult soldiers can protect the treasure more efficiently than cadets...
...rich kid (Charles Peck), plan a gang war. When the rich kid's old man tries to have Tommy pinched for copping his son's watch Tommy slashes him with a pocket knife and runs away. Interspersed in this frieze of juvenile delinquency are adult characters whose unanimous disillusionment adds the last drop of poison to this bitter scene, notably Tommy's sister Drina (Sylvia Sidney) who is picketing for a wage high enough to enable her to move Tommy out of the slums, the young architect (Joel McCrea) who dreams of some day being able...