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...refuses to please King George and Queen Mary. He will not live in Marlborough House. The Marlborough House issue arose first when the late Dowager Queen Alex andra moved there after King Edward's death, though London had long accepted Marlborough House as the normal residence of an adult Prince of Wales. Three years after the death of the Dowager Queen in 1925 the Queen swept in with carpenters, painters, decorators. At a cost running into tens of thousands of pounds enormous Marlborough House was made fit to receive David and his bride, but for six long years David...
...style- certainly for those who didn't see the point in the "Suppose Curtis B. Ball . . ." article, there is a little newspaper using only a 900-word vocabulary. Since it is intended for foreigners learning English, deaf elementary-school children (whose handicap retards their linguistic development), Indian children, adult illiterates, etc. may we suggest that those who cannot get the points in TIME subscribe to The American World for the next school year. . . . One of the first words learned is the word "if," which if TIME-readers had understood, would have made the whole article clear. . . . ELAINE SWENSON...
...highly businesslike manner. Their object was not only to raise $500,000 and present it to the triennial General Convention of their Church next October, but to do something that the Church has never before succeeded in doing-develop a strong organization among its half a million adult males...
...school has copied his system of paying teachers' salaries on the basis of individual ability, rather than for the job held. Not content with educating Des Moines children, he wangled a tentative $120,000 from Carnegie Corporation in 1933 for a five-year experiment in adult education. In two years he has received $45,000, kept a Public Forum humming with lectures on current affairs. He is a Methodist, Mason, Shriner, Rotarian. Time left over from education and lodge meetings he spends studying botany, raising flowers, fishing...
...Kirtley F. Mather, Professor of Geology, will attend the ninth annual meeting of the American Association for Adult Education at Washington today and will speak on "The Mobilizing of Community Resources". Professor Mather is well known for his activities in the Twentieth Century Adult Education Centre, which he founded, and has taken a great deal of interest in such work...