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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...modern text has so exclusive a claim to the title of Teachers' Friend as had the famed McGuffey Readers. But some 400,000 schoolmarms (two-thirds of all U.S. public grade school teachers) draw regular inspiration from a modern counterpart of McGuffey whose lessons are said to reach 14,000,000 pupils: a magazine called The Instructor. Last week the 50-year-old Instructor got a new boss: Miss Helen Mildred Owen, daughter of the magazine's founder. Energetic, fortyish, long the magazine's managing editor, she took over last week as president of the firm...
...enough aluminum to build the planes we know we'll need, let alone supply other military needs. . . . We have in this country only about a half-year's supply of rubber. . . . Wool and tin are also short. . . . The U.S. has little more than a thimbleful of high-grade chromite deposits from which to make ferrochrome, the master alloy in stainless and chrome steels. Supplies depend on the sea lanes and tons of chromite are already piling up in Rhodesia and New Caledonia for lack of ships. . . . The Government's Metals Reserve Company, belatedly building a stockpile...
Weary Worker. Most revealing of all was a letter published by the Manhattan Communist weekly, New Masses. The New Masses said the letter was written by a skilled German worker and smuggled out of Germany. The straightforward style of an intelligent, high-grade workman was supporting evidence of its authenticity...
Walter Piston: Sonata for Violin and Piano (Louis Krasner and the composer; Columbia; 4 sides; $2.50). Boston Atonalist Piston writes with his head only. For modern music's strong-man violinist Krasner (TiME, Dec. 16), Piston's mental calisthenics are grammar-grade stuff...
Publisher John Sanner of Anamosa (Iowa) News got a wire from Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne, offering him $236 to run a series of ads, part of B.B.D. & O.'s whirlwind enlistment campaign for the Navy. Publisher John, aged 10 and now in the fifth grade, wired back that he couldn't handle 8,000 lines in his 3 by 7 in., four-page, rubber-type weekly on which, last issue, he netted $1.38. Result of the ensuing publicity: News circulation rose from 75 to 100 and Publisher Sanner decided to buy a new press...