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...voice as that of The Shadow of a year prior. Compared to The Shadow's well-remembered activities, the War of the Worlds was tame stuff. On the whole, college-bred listeners who first thought the program was a news broadcast were twice as successful as grade-school graduates in detecting that what they heard was fiction. But generally, Dr. Cantril's researchers found, critical ability was affected by other factors tending to create susceptibility. Most significant of these were universal insecurity, worries, phobias, fatalism, war fear. To sum up, Dr. Cantril quoted the late Heywood Broun: "Jitters...
Marriage Revealed. Jesse Hilton Stuart, 32, brawny, rambunctious, hill-bred Kentucky poet and short-story writer (Man With a Bull-Tongue Plow, Head O' W-Hollow), farmer, onetime highschool principal; and Naomi Dean Norris, 31, Greenup, Ky. grade-school teacher; in Ashland...
...grown-up had forgotten it still existed. But alive it was, though senescent. Last week St. Nicholas, 66 years old, withdrew its foot from the grave, took a new lease on life, and went on sale exclusively in 112 F. W. Woolworth stores as a picture magazine for elementary grade-school children...
Diplomas with pictures of heroes are popular in public schools. One of the certificates most popular in elementary schools from coast to coast has a picture of Charles Lindbergh and his Spirit of St. Louis. Youngsters who complete their grade-school education in Oklahoma are rewarded with diplomas picturing hat-waving Will Rogers. Most famous Will Rogers line: "All I know is what I read in the papers...
...remain dissatisfied with the answer they receive." FIFTY-FIVE MEN-Fred Rodell-Tele-graph Press ($2.50). A sharply realistic account, based on James Madison's notes, of the framing of the U. S. Constitution, demonstrating that the framers had hard-headed motives never portrayed in grade-school history texts; and that the Federalist papers were slick propaganda. THE METROPOLITAN OPERA, 1883-1935 -Irving Kolodin-Oxford ($3.75). A thorough, painstaking history of a great institution, with pungent sidelights on the Diamond Horseshoe, the various administrators and the outstanding singers. The author is a music critic for the New York...