Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago Critic Alfred Frankenstein of the San Francisco Chronicle received a letter from a small boy in Australia named Peter Buxton. Peter wanted to know the answers to some questions about "Mr. Yehudi" (Menuhin). Critic Frankenstein was so taken with Peter's knowledgeable prattle that he appointed him the Chronicle's Critic-Down-Under. Last week Critic Buxton's last year's concert-hall impressions were made public under the heading Reasume...
...Mr. Ellsworth B. Buck is a hard-hitting business man who three years ago became a member of New York City's Board of Education. Mr. Buck was appalled to learn that the city's 400,000 junior and senior high-school pupils were taught virtually nothing about sex. He decided that something should be done about it. Last summer he saw his chance. From the Board of Superintendents came a new course of science study for junior high schools, proposing to teach pupils about reproduction among birds and flowers but not among animals. Mr. Buck & colleagues promptly...
...Board of Education, even more impressed by protests from Catholic groups than by their responsibility toward innocence, decided not to teach "mammalian reproduction." But Mr. Buck was not done. He sent his secretary, Eugene R. Canudo (onetime secretary to Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia) to make an investigation into youthful sex problems in the nation's biggest city. Mr. Canudo collected literature on sex education. He also went to the courts, the police, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Last week he brought back a report that caused the Board of Education to reconsider its decision. Salient facts...
...Although Catholics objected to sex education in public schools, Mr. Canudo found a Roman Catholic high school in the city giving such a course to girls...
...this unfamiliar phenomenon electrical engineers took little note until three years ago when Karl Boyer McEachron, General Electric Co.'s ace lightning researcher, started a study of bolts which strike Manhattan's 1,230-foot Empire State Building, a giant lightning rod. During his study Mr. McEachron observed that several strokes which hit the skyscraper made no noise. Last week he had an explanation...