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Disturbed by lack of military scholarship in U.S. colleges (until recently the keenest analyses of U.S. military history were written not by Americans but by Europeans), Beukema expounded his ideas to sympathetic civilian educators. Notable among these was Professor Edward Mead Earle, who two years ago started a seminar in U.S. military policy for top-flight scholars at the Institute for Advanced Study (in Princeton...
Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, financial doctor to the Administration, was worried by the growth of public purchasing power accompanied by a dearth of things to buy (see p. 87). One of his keenest Treasury advisers, Dr. Carl Shoup of Columbia University, told him that U.S. citizens will have anywhere from $5,000,000,000 to $8,000,000,000 more money in their pockets next year, and fewer things to spend it on. The Office of Production Management now figures that the national income of the U.S. in 1942 will...
...Bronx is a luxuriant weed patch on the landscape of U.S. speech, and Mr. Kober knows its every leaf and stalk. Damon Runyon thinks that Kober has "the keenest ear for human speech of any writer since Ring Lardner." In one way Kober tops Lardner, for Lardner's baseball players talked pretty much alike, whereas there are distinct differences-some obvious, some subtle-in the talk of Bella and Max as against that of Ma and Pa Gross...
...part of Marine equipment as rifles and bayonets. Marines have never forgotten that their crack-shooting riflemen in the tops of the Bon Homme Richard helped John Paul Jones to glory against Britain's Serapis off Scotland's coast in 1779. Today the Marine Corps is the keenest rifle-shooting outfit in the world. On the walls of Tommy Holcomb's office in the sprawling Navy Building on Washington's Constitution Avenue hang the trophies of 15 first places won by Marine Corps teams in 31 National Team Matches. Not far away, under the portraits...
Fortnight ago about 2,000 teachers from Midwest schools and colleges met in Chicago for their third annual Conference on Reading. A number of first-rate thinkers have been worrying about the subject for a good 15 years. On hand at the Chicago conference was one of the keenest of them: Ivor Armstrong Richards, Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, collaborator with C. K. Ogden on the famed Meaning of Meaning (1923), author of numerous works that broke ground for such books as Mortimer J. Adler's How to Read A Book (TIME, March...