Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shorewood, a suburb of Milwaukee, strapping, 17-year-old George Kalman, once a Hungarian, rolled up a sleeve, displayed the blue, tattooed numbers of the concentration camp on his arm. His hardest problem in the U.S., he said, had been "to adjust myself to being a human being again, not just a number." Sent to the U.S. by United Service for New Americans, Inc., he spent a year in the Milwaukee Jewish Children's home, now lives with foster parents. At Shorewood High School, he plays football, boxes, is an orator of parts. But in the timbre...
Britons who consider it unseemly to show emotion over human affairs can steam up quickly over fauna and flora. Especially birds. A wartime British movie, The Tawny Pipit (TIME, Oct. 6), pretty well proved that one rural village had almost forgotten the Battle of Britain for a fortnight in its excitement over the nesting drama of two rare specimens of Anthus campestris...
Last week bird lovers were again having a time. In the letters column of the Manchester Guardian, several correspondents described the belligerent tendency of male British bullfinches and chaffinches to attack their own reflections in windowpanes, incidentally disturbing the early morning slumber of human Britons. Nobody suggested shooting the noisemakers; the correspondents seemed to favor a mild deterrent-white paper stretched over the window to abolish reflection...
...Clarence J. Gamble has prepared a paper on "Trends in State Programs for Sterilization of the Mentally Deficient." Dr. Gamble's material is a result of his work as Medical Advisor for the Human Betterment League of North Carolina...
Professor Donham was dean of the Business School until 1942, when he switched over to a teaching post. He has organized and given a course in Human Relations under the General Education program, and will continue teaching this subject next year at Colgate...