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...Forbidden City of Lhasa, and his days as a Buddhist monk in Japan. He can also spin yarns about his explorations of Peru's Inca ruins and Formosa's head-hunting country. McGovern is a sound scholar withal, master of twelve languages, author of a Manual of Buddhist Philosophy, and From Luther to Hitler. He was one of the boys in the back room of Army & Navy Intelligence...
...proposed new alphabet would probably encounter scattered Jap resistance. When the U.S. Army commissioned Tokyo University's Professor Shuhei Ishiyama to compile a democratic teaching manual in simple characters, Jap educators protested that they would lose face if ordinary schoolteachers could understand the whole book...
Founded in 1887, the Horace Mann School became one of the nation's leading laboratories of schoolteaching. Its first, timidly daring explorations did much to lift U.S. schools out of a three-Rs rut. Its experiments in such fields as manual training, natural science, and language-teaching by conversation were copied throughout the nation. But with success, Horace Mann settled down as more of a proving ground for tried methods than a laboratory for new ones...
Strikes knifed through the nation's network of 22 million telephones last week. In 44 states, long distance and overseas service was paralyzed. In many a city or town which still has manual phones, local calls were spotty or completely cut off.* Executives and clerical workers, trying to man the switchboards (see cut), fell hopelessly behind the blinking lights...
...telephones are dial and were not affected on local calls. A great majority of the 123 cities with 100,000 population or over are from 80% to 100% dial. In Chicago (50% dial), all operators manning switchboards stayed at work. Camden, NJ. was the only city with 100% manual phones where all operators struck...