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...Carnegie Unit"-the 120 hours per year that U.S. high schools now accept as standard for each subject. The foundation went on to organize the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association (120,000 current policy-holders), a pioneer among U.S. annuity plans. Most important, the foundation financed the famed 1910 Flexner report criticizing medical schools in the U.S. and Canada, which in turn unlocked the Rockefeller millions that revamped medical education...
...still raw frontier nation, most doctors were products of dubious diploma mills or outright quacks. The A.M.A. took on the job of raising the standards of medical education to the level of those in Europe, and of driving out the quacks. Success came slowly, but after the famed 1910 Flexner Report (for the Carnegie Foundation), the diploma mills were dramatically shut down. The fight against quackery still goes on; the A.M.A. has called a national conference on the problem, to be held in Washington, D.C., next October...
Died. Kenneth Flexner Fearing, 59, minor Kipling of the asphalt jungle, a Chicago corporation lawyer's son who became a proletarian poet during the Depression, a pseudonymous pulp-primer and novelist of such high-voltage thrillers as The Big Clock; of cancer; in Manhattan...
Dictionary of American Slang, compiled by Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner. A handy compendium of berserk English, from Abe's cabe to zooly...
...some readers will regret that the book is selective rather than complete-according to Author Flexner, only 8,000 words are listed out of a possible 45,000 -they will probably agree that the selections in most cases are shrewd and useful. The authors have worked both sides of the street in every major slang-producing area-advertising, journalism, sports, show business, politics, Wall Street, the underworld, the armed forces, teenagers, jazz musicians, racial minorities and Texas. The contributions from Negro and Yiddish slang are particularly striking. Prudes may be disturbed by the volume of sexual references, but there...