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...Correspondents. Best-seller among correspondents' books was William Shirer's Berlin Diary ($3), which by breaking down Europe's momentous years into momentous days gave his record the breathlessness of headlines. Runner-up was Virginia Cowles's Looking for Trouble ($3). Author Cowles, not one of the great by-liners, wrote current history with some of the fresh realism of the little maid who from answering doorbells and making up the beds, sees everybody, finds out every thing, at last knows more about what is going on in the house than the masters themselves. Other books...
...those from Bali, reproducing the gamelan (gong) orchestras of the Balinese temples. Balinese gongsters, whose instruments range in timbre from trumpetlike brass gongs to tinkly wooden ones, play complicated rondo-like pieces, entirely without notation; a player remembers his notes by silently reciting a long poem. The Balinese scales correspond roughly to the Western; one of them has notes named ding, dong, deng, dung, dang. The Dutch Governor of Bali discovered a scale not previously identified, and the Fahnestocks recorded it in the singsong of an eight-year-old boy reciting a pornographic fairy tale...
Regular departments include a "Teachers' Help-One-Another Club" (contributors get $1 apiece for fresh teaching ideas), a lonely hearts column in which teachers and pupils advertise their yen to correspond with classes elsewhere. Eight experts (in arithmetic, reading, etc.) answer teachers' questions. One of the most popular departments (called The You You Can Be) advises teachers about grooming and behavior. Sample tips...
...Struik, professor of Mathematics at M. I. T., compared political with scientific history. Science is cumulative, he pointed out, but it is not always true that political leaders can build upon experience of the past. "Nevertheless, the main periods of general history correspond to those of the history of science," he said...
Florence Hawley is now studying a group of timbers from an old ship found on Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron. If she finds their rings correspond to those of oaks growing near Niagara Falls in 1667, the ship is probably Explorer Robert LaSalle's Griffin...