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Radio fans two winters ago were astounded to hear a ballplayer guest-starring on Information Please. He hit safely on the following: the difference between poi, soy, loy, oy; the gist of the Bordereau letter; an outline of the Willy-Nicky correspondence; the names of this generation's brightest comet, brightest planet, brightest satellite, brightest star. The ballplayer who made John Kieran look dumb was Morris ("Moe") Berg, catcher-coach of the Boston...
...Albanian hillside overlooking the sea, the post-War town of Kravnik is booming along at a great rate. In fact, it is a rare combination of modernist architecture, cosmopolitan inhabitants and the speed-up system. Beautiful to look at, Kravnik is a microcosmic capitalistic nightmare, presided over oy half-a-dozen commercial despots. Hamid, who has a perfectly good though rapidly fattening wife at home, lures stenographers into his sanctum and then makes a certain proposal. The Savoff brothers are never so happy as when they can devise some such scheme as dividing the 12-hour working day into...
...Garden. JUNIPERO SERRA - Agnes Repplier- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Essayist Repplier writes the life of one of California's friar-pioneers. THE SIXTH NEW YORKER ALBUM- Harper ($2.50). Gleanings for the curious from the Manhattan smartchart. RIDDLES OF THE GOBI DESERT-Sven Hedin-Button ($5). More of the same oy the author of Across the Gobi Desert. THE ROOSEVELT REVOLUTION, First Phase - Ernest K. Lindley - Viking ($2.50). A Washington correspondent analyzes the New Deal. THE GREAT OFFENSIVE-Maurice Hin-dus-Smith & Haas ($3). More about New Russia by the author of Humanity Uprooted and Red Bread. INSIDE THE ATOM-John...
Published oy a subsidiary corporation of The Parents' Magazine, the new sheet is pocket-size, concisely written. Unlike other educational magazines it deals not with the theories of pedagogy but with the practical mechanics of school life-the choice of teachers, health room designs, classroom cinemas, luncheon menus, budgets, proper desks, textbook purchases et al. Like some 225 other U. S. publications, it has a "controlled circulation," will be sent gratis, every month except July and August, to 50,000 school superintendents, principals, architects. All others must subscribe at $2 per year. School Management, unlike most educational magazines, pays...