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...Gentling of a Man. But the worst result may be the long-range effect of family responsibilities on young men. Their attitude to their studies is naturally a more "practical" one; they concentrate on subjects that will get them through seminary fastest and guarantee the best posts-"the 'how-to' courses which will make them the skilled technicians and craftsmen for whom the best market waits." The unmarried student, on the other hand, has more freedom to grow in breadth and depth by ranging through the offbeat areas and collateral readings. "Is there not some danger," asks...
Women at Harvard will be among the intrinsically fascinating subjects treated in this "how-to" of Cambridge carnalia. "We certainly want our men to do well up there this weekend," Calvin Marshall Trillin of the newspaper's staff, said last night in a telephone interview...
Cooks & Cats. In addition, there are 100 "How To" magazines, and in New York City's public library there are 3,500 how-to books, 250 on cooking alone, both for the gourmet (Escoffier Cook Book) and the not-so-rich and not-so-particular (The Can-Opener Cookbook). Gardeners can pore over Perennials Preferred, Rockeries, Principles of Weed Control, animal lovers over such volumes as How to Tempt a Fish, How to Live with a Cat. There are dozens of books on How to Buy a House and how to make it better. There is even...
...avid taste for "how-to" books, e.g., How to Shrink a Human Head, is extremely inventive in lab ("Smashing!-Now pass the bat's blood"), once thought up a ripping plan for blowing up Herbert Morrison and the Houses of Parliament on Guy Fawkes...
...most of central Luzon, stronghold of the leftist Hukbalahap, expected violence failed to materialize. Schoolteachers showed unarmed voters how-to mark their secret ballots...