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Bell-Ringer. Whitehead began his teaching career 62 years ago as a mathematician at Cambridge. He and his famous pupil, Bertrand Russell, worked together for nine years on their Principia Mathematica, now on the St. John's list of the 100 Great Books, but strictly for specialists. Whitehead later became professor of mathematics at the University of London, quit (at 63) when faced with automatic retirement and came to the U.S. to start a new career on Harvard's philosophy faculty. He has written some 20 books on mathematics, science and philosophy (best-known: Science and the Modern...
...room schoolhouse, like the outdoor privy, is vanishing,* but half the youngsters in the U.S. (13 million of them) still go to rural schools.. What kind of education are they getting? After a two-year look-around, a nine-man commission (headed by the National Education Association's Howard Dawson, the University of Chicago's Floyd Reeves) last week reported: "In thousands of school districts the education offered is not good enough-even for yesterday...
Just one year ago, on Derby Day, he ran the first race of his career, and romped home nine lengths ahead. But only a few saw him do it. It was the first race of the day, run off at high noon, a time when most Derby fans are still at breakfast (annoying waitresses by calling them "honeychile" in phony Southern accents), being accosted by the "three-card monte" players near the stables, or having their first mint julep of the day at the Churchill Downs...
...itself, Stan Musial's slump might not have been so bad-but most of his teammates were following his example. And the pitching was poor too. The proud Cardinals, World's Series winners last year and favorites to repeat this year, tail-spinned into a nine-game losing streak-their worst in nine years. It was too soon to count them out, but soon enough to start worrying...
...excellent box-office draw was Sam Goldwyn's nine-Oscar-winning The Best Years of Our Lives. Other favorites...