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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Times last week printed a dispatch from The Hague, reporting that the Vatican was putting pressure on Dutch Catholics to prevent a settlement with Indonesia. The Times attributed the story to "a source close to the Foreign Ministry." Next day the meticulous Times corrected its error. It wasn't "a source close to the Foreign Ministry"; it was "a source beyond reproach...
...Close-Mouthed Wives. While the presidents were in their counting house, their wives were in the parlor, discussing bread & honey. At a special session for the ladies, Mrs. Albin C. Bro, whose husband is president of Frances Shinier College, complained that a wife was nothing but a "janitor without portfolio ... At dinner parties, she must display the brilliance of an Einstein . . . Her basic rule in entertaining should be to do everything so well that all the trustees' wives will be proud of her-but not so well that her teas will run the risk of being distinguished . . . She should...
Sunday-School Teacher. Dean Weigle's educational influence has reached not only academic highbrows, but littlebrows as well. Generations of Sunday-school children have been taught by the methods advocated in his book, The Pupil and the Teacher, which has sold close to 1,000,000 copies. Since 1928, Dean Weigle has been chairman of the executive committee of the World's Sunday School Association (now the World Council of Christian Education). In this capacity he is still a vociferous opponent of the ban on teaching religion in the public schools. Says he: "When the public schools ignore...
...Louis began shooting L.I.U.'s zone full of holes with speed and fancy fingertip passing. On the bench sat tough, little (5 ft. 6 in.) Ed Hickey, once a practicing lawyer, now the brain of the Billikens. Coach Hickey wasn't nervous (he said). Always at close hand was his briefcase, crammed with diagrammed plays, notes and scouting reports. The other man who made the Billikens go was towering (6 ft. 8 in.) Charles Edward...
Aircraft designers have studied the flight of birds only superficially. But with slide rule and logarithm they have come close, independently, to the mechanisms that keep the bird on the wing. The masters of machines that can outfly any bird for speed or distance must admit that a bird is, in a structural sense, a small and amazingly efficient living airplane. John H. Storer explains all this in a new book, The Flight of Birds (Cranbrook Institute of Science...