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...busdriver has no idea where he is going but some people toward the front of the bus are trying to give him directions in their school-book French, and the driver inadvertantly smiles. He thinks we might be lost. The disorganized Official Olympic Organizing Committee hired Canadian drivers to fill in for the American drivers who walked out when the Committee hired Canadians. That's the story circulating in the bus and around town; the transportation mess is so confusing it's hard to blame anyone, but sometime during the weekend, the Committee officially blames itself...
OPERA: "I find it the most interesting thing around in music today because it is least bound by schoolmasters and school-book minds. It's show business, and therefore has to work...
Pleased with Daniel Boone, Producer George A. Hirliman commissioned Screenwriter Edgecumb Pinchon to write two more scenarios based on school-book lore: one with Sam Houston as hero, one with Davy Crockett...
...practices as might seem suspicious in the evidence. Chief among the trade commission's discoveries which have excited vigilant patriots is the distribution of text books and public utility "catechisms" circulated by thousands in the public schools of several states to foster the idea that government-operation of light, gas and power companies is un-American if not Bolshevistic. This school-book scheme appeared to have been originated by Samuel Insull, public utility pope of Chicago. The chief propagandist of the industry has been the National Electric Light Association. Citizens awaited completion of the Trade Commission's investigation...
...distinguishing principle of the forthcoming Science as an educational journal, it is stated, will be its entire independence of the school-book publishing trade. One of its important features as a scientific journal will be a monthly correspondence from every European centre of scientific intelligence from Norway to Italy, summarizing the proceedings of all the learned societies...