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Author Barzun has little indeed to say about Education, i.e., the vast, vague "phantasmagoria," the "sulphur-and-brimstone nebula," the "overheated Utopia" that is popularly expected to "make the City of God out of Public School No. 26." But about Teaching he says plenty. His brisk, irreverent, earnest book will ventilate a good many stuffy rooms in the U.S. schoolhouse...
Treatment of men who have lost an arm or a leg has improved enormously since World War I. Then, training and fitting were so incomplete that many casualties soon threw their artificial limbs away because they were too uncomfortable. This time the Army's brisk, blue-eyed Surgeon General Norman T. Kirk (whose book, Amputations, is a surgeon's bible) got six special amputation centers started before the heavy flow of amputation cases began. He believes that with good care, and civilian understanding, no crippled veteran need think of selling pencils on street corners. Good care includes good...
Captain Mildred McAfee, brisk, athletic, curly-haired head of the WAVES, ardent feminist, suggested that since volunteer lady hostesses "resent" having WAVES, WACs, SPARs and women marines at their servicemen's parties, husbands of hostesses ought to get together and entertain servicewomen. One of her WAVES had told her about one such party, "held in somebody's back yard because they had a swimming pool-it was not an organized thing." Everyone had a good time despite the fact some of the men were old enough to be the girls' fathers...
...services. Barbershops prominently post their rates (shave and haircut: 5?) under signs, in English and native languages, warning customers not to pay more. Seamstress shops qualify their prices (trousers or dresses: 30?) with notices that "no additional charge will be made for materials." Under such rules, business is brisk. The trade shop at Tinian's Churo Camp (pop. 11,142) grosses close...
Russia and Switzerland have had no diplomatic relations since 1918, when the Swiss expelled a Russian mission for fostering Communist strikes. Business be tween the two countries was brisk. But good will was. not increased when four years ago the Swiss Government cracked down on both the Swiss Communist Party and home-grown Nazis...