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Worse than the dearth of equipment and teachers, said the educators, was the continuance (passively approved by the U.S. Army) of the traditional German educational caste system. After the fourth grade of elementary school, only 10% of German children have the money or social position to get into secondary schools (roughly equivalent to U.S. prep schools); the other 90% get four years' vocational training, then become Germany's butchers, bakers & candlestick makers. A majority of German children have to choose their vocations before they are 14-and stick to their choice. The mission urged the U.S. to make...
...Tuesday, decontrolled meat prices staged the biggest one-day advance in history. But lower-grade beef and average prices soon began to decline under the stampede of animals to stockyards. By week's end, average beef prices were $18 to $23, compared with a former top ceiling of $20.25; hog prices were $22.50 to $23.50. Old ceiling...
...dream school was one of 40-odd schools now being opened in the U.S. zone of Germany for the children of occupation troops. The Berlin school started with about 175 U.S. children (40% of them below fourth grade), and a smattering from the Danish, French and Belgian military missions. In 26 years of school experience, Superintendent Edwin M. Boyne of Michigan had never seen such equipment and such first class personnel. Cost to parents: up to the rank of sergeant, nothing; for all others, $4 per month per child...
Every top-grade prep-school prospect was scouted and catalogued. One who rated triple-A priority was one Ernie Zalejski, ballcarrier extraordinary at Washington High-which was located, of all places, in South Bend, Ind. The story: flowers and boxes of candy flowed in to his mother, with cards from coaches all over the Big Ten; from one nice man, Ernie got an offer of $1,500 and a new home for his folks if he would put his name down for Michigan. But Ernie still wore an Army uniform, and his preference was Notre Dame...
...wonderful time and place to grow up in. Only two doors away Charles F. Kettering was working on a magical invention that would start autos automatically; Orville Wright skittered around in one of the first airplanes. Young Victor caught the speed fever, too. After graduating from Longfellow grade school and St. Mary's College (now the University of Dayton), he went to Cornell. But he spent less time on studies than driving around the countryside. (His taste in cars used to lean towards Rolls-Royces; now he owns a Lincoln.) When World War I came, he got his first...