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Chicago. Fortnight ago a babbling, excited delegation of mothers and teachers, representing 260 units of the Parent-Teacher Association. 50.000 families. 150,000 children, cornered beaming, bespectacled Dr. Herman N. Bundesen. Board of Health president, in his City Hall office, asked his help in combatting double features. "We feel.'' said their spokesman, "that they are detrimental to the health of our children, due to the many hours spent inside the theatre, depriving them of their rightful amount of outdoor exercise and rest, and resulting in fatigue, eyestrain and overwrought nerves. . . . Two-and-a-half hours is long enough...
...wags who thought up elaborate jokes like this: A man keeps his hat on as others take theirs off to toast Princess Beatrix, then, just as people begin to give him angry looks, takes off his hat and reveals he is wearing a "baby" hat underneath exactly resembling its "parent...
...falling revenues snipped the net operating income of Erie Railroad from $1,200,000 in December 1936 to $45,000 in December 1937, it could no longer meet its debt charges. When RFC refused Erie's request for a $6,006,000 loan because Erie's wealthy parent company, the Chesapeake & Ohio, would not guarantee the loan (TIME, Jan. 17). the jig was up. Last week, therefore, Erie wearily filed a petition to reorganize under section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act, its fourth reorganization in 100 years...
...blessings of peace are so apparent, the terrors of war so appalling that it is small wonder Americans are prone to let the wish be parent to the thought and to dream of isolation from terrestrial troubles. If it is possible for America to withdraw behind her coastline while the world rushes to destruction, it would be a convincing moral argument indeed which would persuade us to leave that sanctuary. But if, in the end, we are to be dragged, however unwillingly, into the conflict, it is shortsighted policy which prevents us from exerting our tremendous force on the side...
...Miriam Hopkins), out to wheedle her orphan nieces (Cinemoppets Betty Philson & Marianna Strelby) away from their penurious foster parent (Ray Milland), ends up with the hearts of all three. Sample whimsey: Q. ''What goes quack-quack and lays an egg?'' A. "Joe Penner...