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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...self-teaching texts are relied upon most heavily in posts off the beaten track where mail deliveries are too few and far between for correspondence courses. Simplified language, helpful (and often amusing) drawings, frequent summaries, and true-false tests have been used to make the books effective in teaching solitary GI students...
...Marlin (pop. then: 3,092) after the war, he found business none too brisk. Soon he ran for the legislature. After two terms he went back to the law again for twelve years, with a four-year stretch as prosecuting attorney of Falls County sandwiched in. Texas had frequent killings in those days and Tom Connally, increasingly adept in courtroom debate and cross examination, was soon making a good living. But politics was in his blood...
...equipment an aid to dignity and blackout identification. The G.I.s called its rednecked wearers a distasteful new name: "snowdrop." Easy-going General Ike, who has a spit-and-polish West Pointer inside, decided the whole European Theater of Operations personnel needed sprucing up. He decreed snappier and more frequent saluting, and an end to the unsoldierly practice of looking away on crowded city streets, when a salute was to be given or acknowleged...
Many of the books are successful products of commercial publishers, retooled by Army pedagogues and writers. Teacher-value is got into the books by simplifying language, adding helpful illustrations, frequent summaries, true & false tests. A physics self-teacher tells how to study gas diffusion without a laboratory: if a piece of cheese is boxed with a slice of raw onion for an hour or so, one bite of the cheese will show that gas gets around...
...Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Wilson, Coolidge); after long illness; in his native Emporia, where for 49 years he had edited the Gazette, making it the most quoted of all country newspapers. To his widow and son, William L. White, who succeeds him (TIME, Jan. 31), came a telegram from a frequent Gazette editorial target, Franklin Roosevelt: "He ennobled the profession of journalism . . . a real sense of personal loss . . . we had been the best of friends." The U.S. had lost the last of its great personal editors, a friendly and forceful champion of freedom...