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...night last week, in rain hard-driven by an icy wind, a shipfitter, an insurance salesman, a machinist supervisor and a Boston Traveler pressman boarded a 50-ft. cruiser and purred out to patrol Boston Harbor. Their "duty" was the water off the busy Navy Yard. Aboard their cruiser they stood eight-hour watches and took turns at catching a little sleep. In the cold dawn they shucked their blue work clothes, sheepskin coats, stocking caps and went back to their civilian jobs...
McGuffey's Readers marked a milestone in U.S. education. What textbooks will become the McGuffeys of tomorrow? A notable contender for the role of McGuffey's successor is a Stanford professor of education, Paul Robert Hanna, supervisor and part author of a thumpingly successful series of elementary school textbooks on social questions. Last week teachers were leafing through two new additions to the series...
...Sizable Following. Putnam does not write what he reports; that is ably done by NBC news writers. Putnam reads it after "processing" it for two hours. "Processing" consists of marking the copy to suggest intonations and going over it with Roy Porteous, night supervisor of NBC announcers. "I prefer," says George Putnam, "to say that Putnam works hours in the preparation of his news." He also says, of other radio commentators: "It doesn't matter that they've been all over the world. When these people are back a couple of months they can't tell...
Since the Red Cross began to bank blood, thousands of gallons of red blood corpuscles have been thrown down the drain-only the blood plasma is used. Dr. Warren Cooksey, technical supervisor of Detroit's blood bank, thought there ought to be something these discarded red cells, which constitute 46% of the whole blood, would be good for. Last winter he began supplying Detroit hospitals with batches of specially processed red corpuscles for experimental transfusions (TIME, Feb. 15). Last week Philadelphia Naval Hospital doctors, who had the same idea, reported that red-cell transfusions had proved spectacularly successful...
...courses taught by nearly 500 teachers, plus New York City's assorted lures, still have great drawing power. Greying Anglo-Saxon Scholar Ayres, who began teaching at Columbia in 1908, must combine the talents of a hotelkeeper, a national planner, a circus ringmaster and a conventual supervisor of morals. He does...