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...picture of wartime havoc among the prep schools was drawn last week in the new 1942-43 Handbook of Private Schools (Sargent; $6). In this 27th edition of his notably outspoken work, peppery Editor Porter Sargent reported heavy damage...
...youthful enthusiasms have run helter-skelter since he left Yale in 1929. First, deciding to dabble in politics, he published a pamphlet called The Standard Political Handbook, sold it to the Sun Oil Co. for a filling-station handout. Ten years ago he bought the rights to the New York Sun's famed Christmas editorial, "Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus," gets a royalty each time it is reprinted. When his lumber deals began to pile up a neat fortune, he bought a bankrupt professional football club, the New York Yankees, which shuddered a bit, then died...
...past months the national government at Washington has frequently had reason to call on the Defense Group to perform confidential work for its agencies. The group has also directed civilian lectures in the "Army Orientation Course" in the camps of the First Corps Area and prepared a handbook on Nazi Germany for use in Government offices...
Beneficiaries of the new handbook will include at present the Navy Supply Corps School, Electronics School, Army Air Forces Statistical School, Naval Training School, Chaplain School, Soil Mechanics course, Engineer Amphibian Command, and Surgery and Tropical Medicine courses...
...nearest doctor is miles away. Before Baby Rufus was born, Father Rich shed quarts of perspiration over a handbook called If Baby Comes Ahead of the Doctor. Baby did. Father Rich tied the umbilical cord with a piece of old cord, expertly greased the infant. Said he: "After all the pistons I've oiled...