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...more irksome than penmanship. Nevertheless it has always been taught on the presumption that good legible hand writing can be learned in no other way. Last week this theory was flouted (as at a psychologists' meeting was flouted the more modern theory that punishment is bad for chil dren-see p. 22) by Dr. Ralph Haefner of Columbia University in a book* based upon studies by Dr. Benjamin De Kalbe Wood of Columbia and Dr. Frank Nugent Freeman of the University of Chicago. For two years these pedagogs experimented with 2,000 typewriters, 14,000 school children...
...entertained by Her Excellency and His Excellency is to spend a day or an evening with two middle-aged people who seem to enjoy frolicking like chil dren, eating hearty meals, reading the papers, hotly discussing the news, playing simple card games with a candle for illumination and blowing it out early...
...preparation for the British Trade Exhibition at Buenos Aires to be opened by Edward of Wales in mid-March, there were distributed to Argentine school chil dren last week over 100,000 typewritten copies of "God Save the King," "in English rendered in Spanish phonetics...
...Author. Thomas Mann, 55, is reputed Germany's most considerable liv ing novelist. In 1929 he won the Nobel Prize. He lives with his wife, six chil dren and Bashan in a villa on the outskirts of Munich. Other books: The Magic Mountain, Buddenbrooks, Death in Venice, Royal Highness, Children and Fools, Early Sorrow...
...Sometime in October" Walter Evans Edge will walk out of the Senate chamber for the last time, submit to Governor Larson his resignation as senior Republican Senator from New Jersey, sail grandly overseas to France, establish himself, his beauteous wife, his four chil dren, his entourage of valets, maids, nurses, cooks, butlers, chauffeurs, in the U. S. embassy at Paris. President Hoover last week sanctioned publication of news that Senator Edge will be the next Ambassador to France, succeeding Myron Timothy Herrick, deceased (TIME, April 8). Rich, social, commonsensical if not brilliant. Senator Edge worked long and late...