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...angry whip at the public (i.e., private) school system. Called George Brown's Schooldays, and written by Bruce Marshall, * it parodies Thomas Hughes's preachy, sentimental story of life at Rugby, Tom Brown's School Days (1857). The new novel rips the hide from the hidebound educational philosophy that has produced many great men and even more numerous small ones...
Ralph Young, who would like to buy the sleepers himself, angrily claimed that sale of the sleepers to the railroads would not break up the sleeping-car monopoly. Interlocking financial interests of the roads with Pullman, Inc., he charged, would form a new monopoly. He also heckled the hidebound railroads for making through passengers change cars at Chicago and other Midwest terminals. At the hearings, he hinted that if he gets the sleepers, he will end this outdated nonsense...
...veterans' hospitals (not to be confused with the Army & Navy hospitals at which sick and wounded World War II servicemen are first treated) give "deteriorated service." There were cries of "cruelty," "red tape," "politics." Some said the trouble was that the Veterans' Affairs Administrator, honest, efficient, but hidebound Brigadier General Frank T. Hines, a layman, tries to prescribe the medical treatment for the 72,000 veterans in his care-a number being swelled by 8,000 World War II veterans a month...
...that busy Eric Johnston made last week. Both the speech and the week were typical. The speech was an almost electrically fresh restatement of old but much neglected truths. Its impact derived from its clarity, frankness and vigor; from Businessman Johnston's position as head of the traditionally hidebound Chamber, and from his steadily growing personal prestige. Since his election to the Chamber presidency in 1942, he has hopped over the U.S. city by city, to South America, to England, talking constantly at and with businessmen, labor leaders and politicians. In two years he has made himself the liveliest...
This continuous alert against attacks from other services has been shared by Holland Smith. He is so Marine-minded that he has been known to argue against hidebound Navy thinking with his blonde, six-footer only son John Victor (Annapo lis '34), until recently a destroyer commander in the Mediterranean, now aide to Admiral Leahy...