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...graveled hill on Main Street, the foundations of the old movie house are overgrown with weeds. Nobody ever builds a house any more. "Every time a house burns down, it's just gone." Said Clair Dunlap, president of the school board: "I can remember when almost everybody hired a man to work the farm. Now you pick corn by machine. The men have to go somewhere else for work." In front of Edwards' store, four teen-agers complained: "Nothing to do here-just a square dance once a month...
Random House so busy that it would not have time for other books. Yet it hated to curb such a promising child. Last week, Random House found a solution. It sold the children's books to Wonder Books, Inc., a new company owned jointly by reprint publishers Grosset & Dunlap (60%) and the Curtis Publishing...
Provost Elliott Dunlap Smith of Carnegie Tech thought that each boy had to work out his own values for himself. He told how, as a boy, he nad built a desk to last a lifetime, after long labor asked his teacher whether one panel was good enough. When the teacher told him to figure it out for himself, Smith scrapped the panel and made another one. The desk was still serving him last week, and so was the lesson. Said he: "Morals can be better taught incidentally...
...Manhattan, Publishers Grosset & Dunlap disclosed that they had withdrawn an edition of the Arabian Nights and revised it. The American Jewish Congress had objected to one of the illustrations, and to references in the text to "a cunning Jew." The former text, said the publishers, has been in use for some 70 years...
From Texas A. & M. College, the county agents called in Dr. A. A. Dunlap, plant pathologist. The trouble was caused, he said, by 2,4-D (2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid) the miracle weedkiller (TIME, June 30). Further sleuthing uncovered the source: it had come from rice farms which planes had dusted with the chemical to kill broadleaved weeds. From the rice fields it had drifted, sometimes as far as 15 miles, to the cotton fields. If possible, 2,4-D should be sprayed rather than dusted. If it has to be dusted, it should be mixed with oil to prevent...