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...measure of Japan's disrupted civilian life-and of its leaders' fanatical will to drive the nation on to victory or ruin-the Koiso Cabinet ordered all schools above the first grade to close. Henceforth all children above six must help to produce food and munitions, join in air defense and other activities "directly concerned with the prosecution...
...Murder, My Sweet" is another happy product of Hollywood's new policy of providing basically grade B detective yarns with skilled directors and adequate budgets to turn out entertaining, if unsophisticated screen fare. Although "Murder, My Sweet" does not measure up to the high standard set by "Laura"--which it seeks to imitate--it is nevertheless a welcome and wholesale relief from the sagas of bullets and blackjacks so long advertised as "second...
Teacher's Career. Her sisters are married to a minister and a college president; Mildred chose another career. At 20, she launched into teaching: at Monticello Seminary, Godfrey, Ill., a job which her father arranged; at Francis Parker, where she taught eighth grade; at Tusculum College in Greenville, Tenn., where she arrived with her hair bobbed, shocking Tennesseans in 1923; at Oberlin, where she was dean of women; and finally to Wellesley, where she became a college president...
Blackface & Blacklists. A confirmed, dapper bachelor, Moss was born in Manhattan 57 years ago, of Austrian parents, quit school in the seventh grade. As a young man, he went into the wool-shrinking business with his brother Benjamin and with the future cinemagnate William Fox. As a young man he was also part of a blackface vaudeville team that played clubs and bazaars. Later the Moss brothers operated a chain of movie houses, and Paul Moss produced several Broadway plays. Rich at 30, Paul Moss retired, lapped up culture by "attending every lecture in town." He was no novice...
...Rinsland begins by mentioning 19 other studies in the last 24 years (including one of his own) which purport to achieve practically the same object. Then, on the 600-odd pages that follow, he lists and notates the 14,571 words occurring three or more times in any one grade. They begin with a, which occurred 14,830 times in the 353,874 first-grader words which were studied, thus placing it in the "first one hundred of the first five hundred of the first one thousand" most frequently used words in that grade. (In the second grade, a occurred...