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Editor of Building America is lean Dr. James E. Mendenhall, 34, a protégé and collaborator of Teachers College's famed Professor Harold Rugg. Dr. Mendenhall went from Kansas to the Lincoln School as a research man in 1928, conceived Building America with Stanford's Professor Paul R. Hanna. It is regularly used in Detroit, Sacramento and Denver classes, in many a school and reference library elsewhere. About 110,000 copies of the entire series have been distributed. For the Power issue the largest single customer was the power industry itself, which took 1,000 copies...
...Episcopal Academy on City Line Avenue. Further weeding brought the group down to 20. Dr. Mockridge taught the boys the Episcopal service, had them attend his church in a body every Sunday during their training period. Last week for the first time St. James's congregation heard its protégés sing so ably that Choirmaster Alexander McCurdy announced plans for a difficult César Franck mass next Ascension Sunday...
...strong-armed solution to the problem of South Carolina's attempted secession; collection of a long-outstanding debt of 25 million francs from France by the simple device of threatening to dispatch warships; his ungloved fight to overthrow the Bank of the United States; his support of Protégé Sam Houston in the fight to annex Texas ("about which," says Author James, "the less said by Jackson partisans the better...
Died. Alfredo Codona, 43, onetime world's No. 1 trapeze artist, onetime husband of famed trapezist Lillian Leitzel, founder of the famed "Flying Codonas"; by his own hand, after shooting and fatally wounding his third wife, Trapezist Leitzel's onetime protégée, Vera Bruce; in a Long Branch, Calif, lawyer's office. Two years after Lillian Leitzel's death from a fall in Copenhagen in 1931, Trapezist Codona was severely injured by a fall during a performance of his famed triple somersault in Philadelphia. Despondent over his inability to perform professionally, he last...
...GLORY Is DEPARTED-Alexander Lernet-Holenia-Harper ($2.50). Between drinks a jittery Austrian ex-cavalry officer relates his adventures in the Balkans during the last weeks of the World War, including a love affair with the beautiful protégée of an archduchess, a mutiny drowned in blood, a narrow escape from his own and British troops...