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...University of Oregon for sex education. Six years later, the state legislature made the subject compulsory in junior and senior high schools. Oregon first tried pamphlets, lectures and then lantern slides, but found too much margin for error and embarrassment on the part of teachers. In 1946 Professor Lester F. Beck, a University of Oregon psychologist, worked out a movie script. Its thesis: "The love life of the worm is an evasion of the human problem. Human sex should be taught honestly and scientifically." He tried his script on other scientists and educators, then submitted it to nine Hollywood producers...
...Season. In Albuquerque, Sheriff's Deputy Lester Hay was obliged to inform two youths that the coal stove they had stolen against the fuel shortage was really the ice container off a water cooler...
When the CRIMSON learned on December 2 that Lester Cramer was trying to revive the lucrative trade he enjoyed before the war, the editors decided to send a man around to investigate...
...three-month CRIMSON investigation of the commercial cram bureau revival was initiated after discovery of a copy of a letter from Lester S. Cramer '30, sent to some of the College's social clubs and announcing readless "to provide tutoring for hour, mid-year and general examination in the major liberal arts studies...
...leading, candidate was the External Affairs Department's experienced, able Under Secretary Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson. No, said Prime Minister Mackenzie King, Canada needs him at home. The next suggestion was General Andrew G. L. McNaughton. But the P.M. thought that McNaughton had his hands full as Canada's atomic-energy specialist. Then the P.M.'s advisers proposed Dana Wil-gress, former ambassador to Russia. Just the man, the P.M. thought-until he learned that Wilgress, now at the I.T.O. meeting in Havana, was exhausted and would not accept the job. Other candidates...