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...Succeed. When a boy still has trouble, however, Wendell trims his program somewhat ("We do not cut the boy to the cloth"). Nor does he insist that a boy go on to college if he is not qualified. Wendell's way of judging the success of a student is not by his marks, but by how well he competes with himself...
Next day the State Department knocked down the Chief's beat; the letter was a fake. Said the State Department: "The alleged letter is not cut out of whole cloth but [is] ingeniously fashioned from fact, half-truth, rumor and inaccuracy." Zabronsky (whose name was misspelled in the letter) had indeed presented Roosevelt with a Scroll of the Torah at the White House, and Roosevelt had written his thanks-but in 1938. By 1943 Zabronsky, a certified public accountant who never left the U.S. during the war, was no longer council president. Another error: Marshal Timoshenko never visited...
...Climb the Highest Mountain (20th Century-Fox), the sentimental story of a circuit-riding parson in a 1910 Georgia town, is made out of the same cloth as Stars in My Crown (TIME, Jan. 8). A narrator's voice strings together a rambling account of rural joys, sorrows, faith; some of the incidents and characters (e.g., an epidemic, a greedy general-storekeeper) directly parallel the earlier movie, and again they are all designed to warm the heart...
...Yard Dress. About 18 months ago a new doctor, A. G. Goude, came to Burnips and studied Mrs. Levandowski. By that time her roomiest dress, made of six yards of cloth, was getting too tight. Her abdomen hung to her swollen knees. Dr. Goude decided that her bad heart was caused by pressure of the cyst. If the cyst were removed by surgery, all might be well...
...South Korean civilians. The Koreans wasted no time getting aboard. When they finally stopped getting aboard, the LST was crammed to the gunwales with over 4,000 passengers, including a fair share of the remaining civilian population of Hungnam-elderly men & women with their belongings wrapped in white cloth, young mothers with their kids strapped papoose style to their backs, and every older kid for miles around who had heard about the big free boat ride. As the LST settled slowly into the mud under the weight of its load, R.O.K. troops herded all the passengers off by shooting bursts...