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...theory was flouted (as at a psychologists' meeting was flouted the more modern theory that punishment is bad for chil dren-see p. 22) by Dr. Ralph Haefner of Columbia University in a book* based upon studies by Dr. Benjamin De Kalbe Wood of Columbia and Dr. Frank Nugent Freeman of the University of Chicago. For two years these pedagogs experimented with 2,000 typewriters, 14,000 school children and 400 school teachers. Most newsworthy result: that children who do their written class work both by hand and by typewriter show more improvement in handwriting than children...
There are times when the story of Life Begins is almost snowed under by a blizzard of tiny garments and when Directors James Flood and Elliott Nugent seem to have forgotten that ''Don't confuse the issue" is as good a motto for films as for maternity hospitals. There are too many scenes showing a mother's pleased surprise on first viewing her offspring, too many shots of prop infants wrapped in blankets. Despite these faults and a theme which is a little too obviously dripping with drama, Life Begins, first release on Warner Brothers' 1932-33 production program, manages...
...Walter Richard Nugent, Irish Senator and Chairman of the Great Southern Railways of Ireland, announced at a stockholders meeting last week that unless President de Valera called off his tariff war with Britain, the fall in freight loadings would force the Great Southern to abandon all service and return its territory to the pony and the jaunting car. He was particularly bitter against the $1 a ton tax on British coal. The fire-boxes of his locomotives are adjusted for Brit ish coal only...
...Isaac Merritt Singer, manufacturer of sewing machines. Died. William ("Billy") Jerome, 67. music publisher and composer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Among his hits: "Bedelia," "That Old Irish Mother of Mine," "Row, Row, Row," "Chinatown," and his latest, "Get Out and Get Under the Moon." His wife, the former Maude Nugent, wrote "Sweet Rosie O'Grady." Died. Alexander Winton, 72, pioneer automobile manufacturer; of old age; in Cleveland. He was born in Scotland, son of a farm tool maker. His Winton Motor Carriage Co. (incorporated 1897) was first to use a self-starter (compressed...
...Elder '32, W. P. Elwell '32, D. S. Eppelsheimer '31, J. F. Fair, Jr. '32, J. R. Howard III '31, K. L. Johnson '32, N. W. Kimball '32, Frederic Lewis '32, W. F. Luton '32, G. W. Movius '32, H. B. Nichols '32, G. E. Norton '31, D. F. Nugent, Jr. '32, Roger Potter '32, S. D. Pollard '32, W. L. Thompson '32, J. A. Walsh '32, J. J. Wilkie '32, LeB. S. Willard, Jr. '32, Mark Woodbury...