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Have U. S. schools been corrupted by newfangled ideas? Yes, cries many a tough-minded oldster. No, snorted the No. 1 U. S. school efficiency expert last week -they are not even up to date. The expert, trim, white-haired Professor Paul R. Mort of Columbia University's Teachers College, after a three-year study of 344 schools, reported his findings in American Schools in Transition (Bureau of Publica tions, Teachers College...
...fortnight ago seemed all sewed up by the Nazis, showed signs of stiffening, if only for a historic instant, the people were hysterically happy. The stiffening was obtuse: it evidenced itself in rumors and unconfirmed statements-that Yugoslavia would accept nothing more than a non-aggression pact; that when trim, elegant German Minister to Belgrade Victor von Heeren strongly urged adherence to the Axis pact, and offered a plane to carry Premier Dragisha Cvetkovitch and Foreign Minister Aleksandar Cincar-Markovitch to Berlin to sign, those gentlemen let it be known they liked to travel by train; that the first full...
...Trip 21's cabin, most of the 13 passengers were in their berths. But Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, the line's husky president, the U. S.'s No. 1 fighting pilot of World War I, was up. He was getting off at Atlanta. Little Clarence Moore, the trim British steward, was dressed...
...touch on the starter, the motor roared, then settled into a gentle rumble. The odor of warm oil, warm metal filled the crowded tank; then the steady, rhythmic, lulling scrunch of the gears. Behind the motorized infantry, the motorcyclists, the trim anti-tank guns, the 68th moved into line, went past The Old Man at 20 m.p.h. Sergeant Pullen drove like a virtuoso, keeping his tank dressed with the four others on his left, watching the field for holes or stumps which would give him and his men a bashing blow against the steel walls...
...story pattern pasted against a war background. It begins in Czecho-Slovakia, moves to England, hurries back to Germany, then to Switzerland during a hectic scramble for the possession of a Czech scientist (James Harcourt) with secret plans in his head for a new type of steel plate. His trim, saucy daughter (Margaret Lockwood) strings along, meets with handsome British and German intelligence officers (Rex Harrison and Paul von Hern-reid), scrambles matters by failing to recognize for some time Mr. Right...