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...Glamor" Courses. Colleges have launched nearly a hundred new "military" courses: "military French," military mathematics, military geography, communications, ballistics, truck-driving, music for drum majors. But collegians, aware that the Army has no hand in most of these courses, have already begun to lose interest. And the Army sympathizes with them...
Colonel B. W. Venable bluntly told the educators that "glamor" courses in military matters are often useless. What the Army needs is courage and resourcefulness-both, said he, plain products of a good education. He further shocked the delegation when he told them that the college-graduate soldier did not have as good self-discipline as the soldier of high-school and grade-school level...
...chief cause for SEC's loss of glamor is not directly connected with war. It is the simple fact that maturity, as it must to all enduring Government commissions, has come to SEC. Its main policy fights are over. Its job now is the technical one of carrying out the basic policies already determined. On the utilities front, the outlines of holding-company "disintegration" were established in the months before Jerome Frank became a judge (TIME, April 14). Even before that, the SEC-Wall Street fight had degenerated into skirmishes over "attitude," red tape, technical details...
Congresswoman Frances P. Bolton of Ohio plumped for a military women's auxiliary under Army control, replied to the suggestion that women might tire of all-work-and-no-glamor: "There is nothing the women of the country will welcome more than to have that word 'glamor' taken away...
...Glamor is added to Frenchman's Creek by rigging everyone in costume (vaguely Restoration) and setting him high in the social scale. But the story of Lady Dona St. Columb is the same story that hundreds of women's-magazine serials have told & told again: the temptation and fall-strictly temporary-of a respectable woman. Says Lady Dona, over-assessing herself in the time-honored fashion of housewives...