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Better-Speech pupils get 15 pamphlets providing the equivalent of eighth-grade instruction in grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary. They are told that it is not so elegant to say "we couldn't get along without the typewriter" as "the typewriter is an indispensable office appliance...
...student's advantage that his name be known to the correcter. But in large courses in other fields where examinations are not marked blindly there is apt to exist injustice; knowing the owner of a paper, an instructor is influenced by personal feeling. At all times, however, a grade is subject to the correcter's whim and mood of the moment...
...DANGEROUS YEARS - Gilbert Frankau-Button ($2.50). Lengthy (686 pages), second-grade family chronicle about second-grade English nobility, relieved by well-spaced sudden deaths; by a veteran author, still doing business at the old stand...
While he was working on the section in July the Cuban Government, "for relevant and humanitarian service," bestowed on Mr. De Besa the Decoration of Honor and Merit Grade of the Comendador. the same Cuban kudos given last month to Mrs. Ogden Reid, the publisher's ex-secretary and present wife, who runs the New York Herald Tribune...
Those gloomy novelists who talk about one out of every 500,000 being able to make the grade are complimenting themselves on their own genius...