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...Probably never before has a university-dominated group of educators presented a blue-print for education on all levels," hailed Benjamin Fine, of the New York Times, last week. In its final chapter, on its final level, the Committee Report discusses the inadequacies of postschool and out-of-school education of adults and young people in the American community...
...When Benjamin Fine, New York Times education editor, blasted the story over two columns on page one of the Times and the Boston Herald, other pagers threw the release date out the window and climbed one the wagon. Preliminary editorial opinion from the press seems entirely favorable to the report, though hot debate is expected among local and national educators...
Into the breach stepped brisk, friendly Benjamin G. Bushong, dairy farmer, cemetery owner, and chief red-tape cutter of the 226-year-old pacifist Church of the Brethren ("Dunkers" - because they practice baptism by total immersion). For months Dunker Bushong had been pushing his church's own overseas relief program (TIME, July 24, 1944), only to strike a snag. City Dunkers had raised money for calves and feed. Country Dunkers had fed and fattened the animals into fine bulls and heifers. The Dunkers had the cattle but they had no ships...
Into the State Department as a special assistant (and probably later as State's legal counsel), came quiet, unstuffy Benjamin Victor Cohen. This was a sweet morsel for both Byrnes and Cohen. After Dumbarton Oaks (which Ben Cohen had helped to draft), he had been slated for the State Department's top legal post. Despite Byrnes's insistence he had been blocked, had failed to get the support expected from Franklin Roosevelt. In deep disappointment, Ben Cohen had resigned but stayed in harness without Federal pay as Byrnes's general counsel in the Office...
...scientists, because his Origin of Species is considered a refutation of the supernatural. Toward the end of Komarov's speech, he reviewed British science in two paragraphs, most of which was devoted to the great work done by Darwin. American science was covered in one paragraph, which mentioned Benjamin Franklin...