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...convention once more resolved to plump for the Harrison-Black-Fletcher bill, encouraged NEA's adult education section to strike Congress for another $25,000,000 to eradicate illiteracy...
...lion (Zalophns californianus). All trained '''seals" in circuses are actually sea lions. True seals, which belong to the family Phocidae cannot be taught to toss or juggle a ball. California sea lions make the best circus performers; the Stellers are too big, too pugnacious. An adult Steller bull weighs 1,500 to 2,000 lb., a cow up to 1,000 lb. California bulls weigh up to 1,000 lb., the cows...
...enough volunteer talent to put on the first National Folk Festival in St. Louis. She arranged the second Festival in Chattanooga, last year's in Dallas. Envoys from colleges and towns, winners of State Festivals were welcomed. Some sponsor always paid the deficit. This year Chicago's Adult Education Council agreed to give $12,000 and Chicago's Orchestra Hall last week housed one more National Folk Festival. Performers traveled from States as far apart as New Mexico and Connecticut, all week did their turns. Outstanding turns...
...melodrama, it would be more effective if Director W. S. Van Dyke had avoided more of the cliches that tend to attach themselves to all pictures involving 1) soldiers, 2) gangsters, 3) emotional triangles. To balance its defects, They Gave Him A Gun, no masterpiece but a fast-moving, adult screen play, has the ad vantage of highly proficient performances by its three principals, notably Gladys George in her first major role since Valiant Is the Word for Carrie. Good shot: Jimmy's version of the feat that got him the Croix de Guerre...
...your issue of April 26, p. 15, you quote me as saying "'This,' he exulted, 'means the solution of industrial peace.'" What compensating advantage is there to you in reporting me as saying something which I did not say and which no adult literate person would...