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...reader who jumped for joy when he read of the English education of Chicago Newsman Ernie Hill's stepson Jona than prise to [TIME, learn that Nov. 2]. "six of It the comes as best"- no six sur wal lops with the headmaster's cane - work wonders with a boy too long exposed to progressive education in U.S. schools...
...tribulations of Foreign Correspondent Ernie Hill in the education of Jonathan may leave him "strictly speechless," but, for my money, not speechless enough ... If little school" Johnny can was hardly tardy 32 be times blamed in for one that year, fact the ... If six wallops with a birch cane were what Jonathan needed (as it turned out, big surprise), let Papa Hill know that birch canes are for sale in New York as well as in Lon don, and it is his legal duty to apply the cane. Is it an indictment of the American public school system that...
...could call it dull. There were playmates with such names as Trumper. Po King and Boy Blue. There was an occasional flood that carried away the shacks of the natives. There was the great blue sea to swim in, the teachers at school ever ready to cane the inattentive, the vigorous back-fence give & take between parents and neighbors...
...inquired also what would happen if he was late. That would result in about two with the cane. And what would happen if he threw an orange at the teacher or hit him between the eyes with a paper clip, as in New York or Tokyo? . . . 'That would be Monday night detention for three to five hours, plus six of the best, plus no more football or swimming for the rest of the term...
Ratoons, Novelist Rooke explains, are the sprouts that spring from last year's sugar-cane roots. No full-grown stalk of a novel. Ratoons itself bristles with sprouts of promise...