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Only among the 36 rear admirals in the staff corps are there other non-Annapolis men. Outstanding among these is Ben Moreell, Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, who came to the Navy from a municipal job during the last war and jumped the grade of captain when he was made Bureau Chief. To Ben Moreell belongs much credit for the gigantic job of building the Navy's worldwide bases. Other typical non-Annapolis staff corps admirals: Ross T. Mclntire, Chief of the Bu reau of Medicine and Surgery; William...
...schooling was interrupted after the eighth grade. To help support the family Cas had to go to work. He caddied, sold papers and worked in a pottery and a steel foundry. One year he spent in a Utah CCC camp. Only after three years could Cas start high school...
...engineers bulldoze a grade down to the riverbed, up the other side. Then in the darkness our infantry moves up to the next height with bayonet and grenade...
...social textbook field for grade-school children is largely divided between Hanna's series and that of pioneer Progressive Educator Harold Rugg (TIME, Sept. 9, 1940). With a momentum built up by his high-school books since 1922, Rugg's elementary series has sold over 2,000,000 copies. Hanna's series, starting cold in 1936, is already pushing the 1,500,000 mark...
...volumes, for the fifth to seventh grades, are Making the Goods We Need and Marketing the Things We Use (Scott, Foresman; $1.60 each). They attempt to teach, in simple language, and with hundreds of pictures and charts, the basic facts about manufacture and marketing, and the interdependence of all peoples in a world in which these processes go on. Hanna's textbooks, from the first-grade study of Peter's Family, are one-and-two-syllable demonstrations that any modern man must be part of a world society, good...