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...slightly larger than a typewriter and weighing 7½Ibs., the new product is a teaching machine. Grolier salesmen will sell it along with The Book of Knowledge and the Americana as a help to home learning, but the ultimate stakes are much higher. Grolier President Edward J. McCabe Jr. hopes it will be the first big step toward revolutionizing the $300 million-a-year textbook industry. Says he: "The first educational breakthrough was the film strip. Then came educational TV. The teaching machine may well be next...
...Gold, the Gautier story, was retitled The Quest for a Blonde Mistress, the market rose from 6,000 copies to 50,000 a year. Haldeman-Julius hired a stable of writers to grind out popular themes; by far the most prolific was an apostate priest in London, Joseph McCabe, who wrote on anything, and eventually produced more than 7,500,000 words at the rate of 10,000 a week...
...representation of local educators' opinion of Conant's criticisms and proposals was expressed by Francis T. McCabe, Headmaster of Rindge Technical High School in Cambridge, who said yesterday that he was sure most educators would praise the report. "It aims quite clearly at school boards and parents," stated McCabe. "Only they might find fault...
Conant's claim that "comprehensive schools" should replace technical or specialized schools applies only to non-urban areas, according to McCabe. "In the city there are enough students for technical schools like Rindge, and there is a need for specialization within comprehensive schools...
...recently published study advised students to concentrate on one foreign language for four years, rather than several languages for a shorter period. McCabe "agreed 100 per cent" with Conant's language study recommendations...