Word: books
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the tense days of last spring, Captain Liddell Hart was at work on a big new volume: The Defence of Britain.* Events moved so fast that he had to finish it at a sprint, a misfortune from which the finished book suffers. Its last 190 pages are too full of military detail to interest most civilians, but its first 243 pages are meaty, revealing...
...Cutler, chief surgeon of Boston's famed Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, and his associate, Dr. Robert Zollinger. To them surgery is not only a science but an art, a religion, and a means of self-expression. Last week they published their new folio-sized manual of surgery,* first book of its kind since 1853. Full of brief, "intimate" instructions for every type of standard operation from appendectomy to tonsillectomy, their manual is also crammed with scalpel-neat pen-drawings by Medical Artist Mildred Codding. As important to the authors as the practical instructions for "unfledged surgeons" are the simple...
...more science in education. Most practical was Columbia University's Professor Karl N. Llewellyn, who suggested that educators find mass-production formulas that even mediocre teachers can use. Sample formula (to promote healthy skepticism): Let pupils be taught from the kindergarten to preface every "fact" thus: "My geography book says that Albany is the capital of New York"; "Mr. Smithers says that stealing is naughty"; "The Bugle says Japan is a menace"; "Candidate Loud says that Senator Louder is a liar...
...crooning in earnest, as Rudy Vallee's pianist. When he got to Hollywood in 1936, Henderson knew so much about putting over a song that he was hired to teach Deanna Durbin how to do it. Last week, in collaboration with Fiction-Writer Charles Palmer, he published a book about...
First treatise on the U. S. art of crooning, Henderson and Palmer's book will cause no Flagstads to sprout. But its canny appraisal of the ins & outs of popular song-singing may well make it the aspiring mike-moaner's Bible. Do you want to make big money singing songs for the U. S. radio and cinema public? Then stay away from highbrow vocal teachers, never mind your high C ("Many girls have made fortunes without ever coming within an octave of it"). Concentrate on naturalness and intimacy. Learn how to act at auditions...