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Says Mr. Hill : "We have no valid tests on this. . . . Besides, the precocious child-actor is apt to be pretty much of a brat." Roger Hill, who was born there, inherited Todd School from his father in 1928. He believes that budding geniuses should be nurtured. Todd's curriculum is designed to prepare boys for college, but extracurricular activities are Hollywoodian: boys paint, act, design stage sets, make sound films, radio speeches...
...with "analysts" whose opinions are no better than the next man's. Catering to a public fatigue with such dubious experts, a recent issue of Pic made an indiscriminate attack on the best- Messrs. Shirer, Davis, Kaltenborn, Swing-making them out as superfluous to newspaper readers. The valid point, obscured by this sort of thing, is that newscasters would be more effective if they were fewer and better. In accuracy, coherence and discretion, only a few newscasts will stand the test of print...
...Adam Yarmolinsky '43, who pointed out the difficulties facing the novelist in a time of total war. Not only is he faced by the threat of censorship and the shortage of printing material, but he must also find it impossible to view his topic with the impartiality necessary for valid literary effort...
...easily as the U.S. took Cuba from Spain. In 1941 U.S. preparedness had begun to be more formidable. But only a few weeks ago, U.S. officers in the Philippines told Author-Correspondent Clare Booth about Homer Lea because his conception of a Japanese attack on the Philippines was still valid even in many details...
Under the complicated P.R. system, a quota is established form the number of valid voice polled, and once a candidate has received enough to fill this quota, the rest of his votes automatically are distributed among the second choices marked on the ballots. Thus none are wasted...