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Neat, "platinum-blond" Principal Lester Dix, who produces more than 100 tons of fancy tomatoes each year on his farm at Princess Anne, Md., was not a bit flustered last week by the guinea pigs' criticisms of Lincoln School. He was pleased "that our friends do not hesitate to tell us about our worst faults." And Alumnus-Teacher Tom Prideaux explained: "Progressive teaching is popularly suspect. It is a convenient scapegoat. Further, many students in new schools like Lincoln are recruited from families with a talent for criticism. They have rebellion in their bones...
...Angeles Humane Department announced that unless help came soon the animals would be mercifully killed in lethal gas chambers. At that, money began to pour in. Actors Katharine Hepburn, Richard Dix, Stuart Erwin, oldtime silent-film Adventuress Kathlyn Williams, others donated checks from $10 to $100. Some 700 animals in the Barnes-Sells-Floto Circus were put on limited rations, the savings given Zoopark. The first of three Sunday benefit performances at the Zoo brought $1,000. Los Angeles schoolchildren scraped together $9 in pennies and dimes. At week's end a new flood-of paying visitors -brought...
...Cause for Alarm" in the January 1938 number not only surpasses in boldness its uninhibited predecessors but, more astonishingly is written about men's not women's sexual troubles. Outlining the functions and disturbances of the prostate gland, Miss Davis combined the technique of Kathleen Norris, Dorothy Dix and the American Medical Association's Journal...
...Just in time to attract Legionnaires on the morning after their big parade (see p. 12), the Museum of Modern Art hung up a selection of gruesome war etchings by German Otto Dix, who spent four years on the Western Front, and a dynamic painting, Armored Train, by Italian Gino Severini, one of the Italian Futurists who discovered about 1915 that war was both hygienic and beautiful...
...Government silver depository, similar to the gold fortress-vault at Fort Knox, Ky., to be constructed on the grounds of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point. Last week the President signed a bill fixing the site of the silver fortress not at West Point but at Camp Dix, N. J., where as many as 63,848 soldiers were quartered simultaneously during the War and where 1,034 are still encamped on a 7,843-acre military reservation. Reasons for the change, recommended by the House Military Affairs Committee: Camp Dix is conveniently located between New York, where foreign...