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...politicians or cutthroat competition, but censorship. Religious, racial, political, economic groups keep an eagle eye on schoolbooks, are quick to howl at what they consider irregularities. After Gary's School Superintendent William Wirt in 1934 charged that New Deal Brain Truster Rexford Guy Tugwell was a revolutionary plotter, Oak Park, Ill. and Kansas City dropped like a hot potato a book of which Professor Tugwell was coauthor, Our Economic Society and Its Problems, and its sales have fallen off one-third, according to Harcourt, Brace, its publishers. There are fighting words, especially in the South, that a textbook dare...
Fredericksburg, Va., is the place where George Washington is supposed to have tossed a silver dollar across the Rappahannock River. On a drizzly day last week, 7,000 people and 642 dogs from Washington, Richmond, and the surrounding countryside gathered under the 400-year-old oak trees in Fredericksburg's city park for the 239th renewal of Fredericksburg's famed dog mart. According to tradition it; was founded to pacify warring Indians who had no need of the usual peace offerings of beads, muskets or rum, but who coveted the colonists' fine dogs. It has evolved into...
...Author. Ernest Miller* Hemingway ("Hem" to his friends) has seen much of the war and violence he so aptly describes. Born July 21, 1898, at Oak Park, Ill., second of a family of six, he was only two when his father, a doctor who was also a sports enthusiast, handed him a fishing rod, was not yet in his teens when he graduated to shotgun and rifle. On long hunting trips in northern Michigan he was his father's regular companion. In other respects, he was not so filial. His father had hopes of his becoming a doctor...
Farther away from home we find such things as the Harvard Seismograph Station and the Cushman Laboratory for Foraminiferal Research. The former is located 25 miles north of Cambridge at the Oak Ridge Observatory, while the latter is an almost equal distance in a southerly direction, in Sharon. For those concerned with foraminifera it may be interesting to note that there is a library of 2,000 works about foraminifera at the Cushman Laboratory. Those not concerned with foraminifera are probably glad to learn that the subject is being investigated anyway...
...work" was exactly what critics of Hollywood ought to do, said Ohio State University's scholarly Dr. Edgar Dale. He also recommended a Consumers' Research organization to evaluate Hollywood's productions. Meantime the action of three progressive schools near Philadelphia (Friend's Central, Oak Lane Country Day, Cheltenham Township High School) showed that at least some educators thought some films had some educational value. To show their adolescent charges how the world wags, the Progressive Education Association prepared for classroom screenings of Winter set, Black Legion, I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, The Informer...