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Larry Todd, Washington correspondent of the official Soviet news agency Tass, and Rob Hall, Washington correspondent of the Communist New York Daily Worker, may sit in the Senate and House press galleries, take all the notes they want. But as "Government propagandists," Joseph Sitrick and Grattan McGroarty, who cover Congress for the State Department's Voice of America, may not. If they can find seats, they may sit in the public galleries, but like other spectators, may not take notes. In reporting debates they must rely on their memories, or wait for the next day's Congressional Record...
Professor Henry Grattan Doyle of George Washington University thought it was time to call a halt. The latest gimmick among U.S. educators was something called "life-adjustment education" -a school of thought which seemed to believe that the teacher's job was not so much to teach history or algebra, as to prepare students to live happily ever after. "It will pass," said Professor Doyle to the Modern Language Association last week; but meanwhile, "it is continuing the same course of wild claims, blanket condemnation of 'traditional' subjects, anti-intellectualism, and contempt for 'book learning...
...John Bracken's bumbling leadership. In his farewell address, pedestrian John Bracken argued that to get anywhere, the Tory party must become "a crusading party dedicated to the welfare of the ordinary man and woman." That was not the mood of the convention. Said Acting Chairman M. Grattan O'Leary (of the Ottawa Journal), as he shut off the polite applause for Bracken: "Ladies & gentlemen, we come back now to the hard realities of the business before...
...Wrote Grattan: "The great majority of those who are discussing what America must do to achieve postwar prosperity . . . talk in terms of employment in factories. This is a dangerous error. . . . Our main attention must be concentrated upon seeing that after the war service industries are given every opportunity to expand...
Some economists have regarded the steady expansion of the service industries as a parasitic growth. Social Scientist Grattan rebuts the theory that service industries create no new wealth as "antiquated nonsense." To Grattan, who realizes that technological improvements tend steadily to reduce factory work toward button-pushing by fewer & fewer workers, a higher standard of living means many more services, and thus more opportunity for employment outside factories...