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...California Schoolmarm Kathryn H. Martin, in the educational magazine Clearing House: "People who are too smart rarely make good teachers [because they] can't understand why other people make so many mistakes. . . . If I didn't remember how I felt about long division, I'd go berserk some day when I see 'there' and 'their' mixed up for the one-millionth time. . . . The most interesting thing about teaching is not what-you already know, but how much you learn and need to learn. A teacher who 'knew it all' would...
Like a Bag Race. To make matters worse, women were none too happy about 1947 fashions. They especially objected to lengthened skirts. Designers, revelling in OPA-less freedom, had gone berserk with swirls and pleats. They had dropped the hemline from the knee to at least midcalf. Some daytime dresses went almost to the ankles, making their wearers look like entries in a bag race. Resistance to these long skirts increased in direct ratio to distance from New York. In Chicago, a parade of long skirts at a fashion show drew a chorus of disgusted "Eeeks!" A customer at Chicago...
...sociable people, opening at the slightest touch. But the Wigglesworth gate is a black sheep among gates, his unhappy life as an outcast obviously due to an abnormal mind. Further research has determined the cause of his twisted character to be a midnight accident with a heavy truck gone berserk. Misshapen and bitter Wigglesworth swore to close the Yard to all suspicious characters after dark. At last the mystery of Harvard's iron curtain has been revealed. Freshmen, over sympathetic to the woes of all men, will no longer be afraid of gates, and most important of all, perhaps...
...human detritus was buried or carted away. The rubble had been heaped into piles, like unmelting snow, or trucked out of town and dumped. Slowly the skeletons of Europe's wrecked palaces, cathedrals and cities had emerged. The cultural bill for Europe's latest berserk spree was on the table. A comprehensive picture book, out this week (Lost Treasures of Europe, Pantheon; $5), tots up that bill...
...mobbed by berserk homeowners...