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Everyone knew that there had been a bumper crop of wartime and postwar babies in the U.S., but no one seemed to be doing anything about their future schooling. Last week Oscar R. Ewing, head of the Federal Security Agency, warned Congress that the babies, grown to moppet's estate, were about to swamp the U.S. school system with 1,000,000 extra schoolkids a year: what the country direly needs, said Oscar Ewing, is some 30,000 extra classrooms. Ewing's estimate of the minimum needed for new school construction in the next ten years: between...
...Little Time. Almost from his birth in Brooklyn, Feb. 18, 1898, Hadden's career as an editorial prodigy progressed, according to Busch, "with the speed and directness of an arrow." As a moppet he entertained his family with such epic poems as The Mouse's Party, which ran to 142 stanzas because its author was out to outdo The Ancient Mariner. At Brooklyn's Polytechnic Prep, he put out a handwritten gossip sheet called The Daily Glonk. But he did not really want to be an editor; he yearned to be another Ty Cobb. Though an inept...
...hundreds of companies that make a living out of novelty hats, the fashion whims of the U.S. moppet mean the difference between feast & famine. Success in this fast-moving, heads-up business is often a fluke. But last week Ben Molin and Joe Rosenbaum, owners of Brooklyn's Benay-Albee Novelty Co., thought they had it down to a pseudoscience, something like phrenology...
...visit to an elementary school in Flores Department. When Senora de Batlle Berres came into one of the classes, the teacher, anxious to show off her pupils, called on an eight-year-old for the name of the wife of the President of the Republic. Blurted the radio-prepped moppet: "Dona Eva Maria Duarte de Peron...
Died. Carl Thomas Anderson, 83, veteran cartoonist, who worked at it for 40-odd years and finally clicked with "Henry," an egg-bald moppet; of a heart ailment; in Madison...