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...pipe line north through unpiped country to the Mesabi Iron Range in northern Minnesota, the National Bituminous Coal Commission, the United Mine Workers and various coal companies were swift to protest (TIME, Sept. 26). Last week the coal-men had new cause for worry. Also lured by the low-grade ores now lying undug at Mesabi for lack of cheap fuel to smelt them, Public Service Gas Co. of Montana asked FPC for permission to build a 1,500-mile $49,402,000 pipe line to the Mesabi Range from natural gas fields in Montana, Wyoming and North Dakota...
...subject early, explaining it to moppets by describing a simple society like that of Eskimos. Centerville, a textbook published last week,* brings social studies closer to U. S. children by analyzing a simple society in the Middle West's corn belt. For nine-year-olds in the third grade, Centerville is a story of a '"typical" (but unidentified) village of 309 people in Indiana. Authors of this child's Middletown are Stanford University's young Professor Paul R. Hanna, progressive education's No. 1 curriculum expert; University of Chicago's Professor William S. Gray...
Convict Richard Whitney, Groton and Harvard graduate who has been teaching visual education* at Sing Sing, asked for a different job because he was vexed by the backwardness of his pupils, most of whom never finished grade school...
...Manhattan gallery of Dali-sponsor Julien Levy, an exhibition of "surrealistic" paintings by Grade Allen, adept professional dope, included nitwit daubs entitled: Man with Mike Fright Moons over Manicurist, Dogs Gather on Street Corner to Watch Man-Fight, Gravity Gets Body Scissors on Virtue as Night Falls Upside Down...
Courses starting today include elementary psychology, development of the American Constitution, and beginner's astronomy. With a faculty of 28 recruited from the staffs of Harvard, Boston University, Tufts, Simmons, and Wellesley. the Commission will sponsor 30 courses of college grade this fall and winter. Tuition is $2.50 or $5.00 a course...