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...Traxler lists hundreds of elaborate tests designed to find out all about a schoolboy by "measuring" his background, attitude, aptitude, achievement and personality. Some of them: the Tweezer Dexterity Test and the Wiggly Block Test, to measure manual skill; the Cardall-Gilbert Test of Clerical Competence; the Meier-Seashore Art Judgment Test, the California Test of Mental Maturity, and the Orleans Geometry Prognosis Test (to predict the ability of pupils who never studied the subject...
...fighting. Each report had a compelling immediacy, and all were ably done. Among the best: NBC's Merrill Mueller reporting the look and feel of Eisenhower's headquarters; CBS's Richard Hottelet sketching a Marauder's-eye view of the ship-packed Channel and invasion coast; Mutual's Larry Meier describing a landing...
...painters (Corot once refused 10,000 francs for some pictures, asked the buyer to give Millet's widow a ten-year 1,000-franc annuity instead). But as Bachelor Corot grew older, his pictures grew more effeminate, his landscapes became more wishy-washy, more virginal. Famed Critic Julius Meier-Graefe once summed up what was wrong with Corot as a painter by remarking that he "lacked the grain of poison which is the preservative of greatness...
...Commandos, ducked bullets and bombs throughout the battle and returned to London to write some of the most vivid stories of World War II (see p. 26). Three of the 22 landed on the Dieppe beaches and got back alive. Only casualty was International News Service's Larry Meier, who was cut in the face and chest by shrapnel but got himself patched up and wrote his story...
Sleepy. In Thomaston, Ga., John Meier headed for bed, twisted an electric bulb to put out the light, dropped the bulb, cut his hands, stepped on it, cut his feet, stooped to pick out the glass, blacked his eye on a chair...