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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chungho Bridge. "Hello!" said Aldrich thickly to some Chinese youths perched on the bridge rail. Chinese Air Force Corpsmen Wong Shou-pen and Ke Fating did not seem to understand the greeting. Suddenly Corporal Aldrich cried, "Ding ho!" Seizing Wong and Ke by the legs, he dumped them backward into the deep and muddy stream below. The Americans laughed; it did not occur to them that neither Chinese could swim...
...movie leans over backward to be fair to the industry, which insists on making such an indifferent case for itself. Such debatable blessings as America's Town Meeting of the Air and the scripting efforts of Norman Corwin are duly acknowledged, a fair proof of the old saw that in the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king. Such likable veterans as Jack Benny, Fibber & Molly, Bob Hope, Edgar Bergen and Fred Allen are respectfully saluted. The news commentators are cursorily lumped on the credit side and so is the fact that radio lavishes millions each...
Carefully Ignored. The Central High report, written seven years ago, had been carefully ignored. Philadelphia kept to its policy of promoting all pupils in its public-school classes, regardless of whether they had made the grade. Purpose: to keep backward students in their own age groups. Result: the dullards retarded the whole class; teaching was geared to the lowest instead of the highest common intelligence...
...weeks, teachers and parents jammed the hearings-scolding, threatening, protesting. Some proposed establishing remedial schools. Some demanded special teachers to take care of dullards. Almost all insisted on merit promotions. Cried one principal: "Teachers with backward children in their classes are simply custodial agents for morons, until they can be passed on to a higher grade...
Last week, as events reinforced the limb on which he had long been impudently perching, Stabler gibed: "Get yourself a compass, a divining rod, walk backward through a dark alley at three minutes after midnight and everything will be made clear. The first of them who comes out honestly and admits that the hocus-pocus of the Dow theory made him miss nine weeks of the bull market will deserve a seat on the Stock Exchange, upholstered in bearskin...