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...industries, are putting many a white-collar youth to work with his hands. "It is too early to tell, but this expanding migration of bookkeepers and clerks and filling-station attendants into the manual skills of the defense industries may be the beginning of a revolution in U. S. public-school education and in the 'whitecollar culture...
...energy and many friends, Dr. Damrosch still puts in an eight-hour work day. As NBC's musical counsel honoris causa, he has worked at a steady job for 13 years: NBC's Music Appreciation Hour. Every Friday some 7,000,000 youngsters, most of them in public-school classes, await with pencils and notebooks the mellow baritone of nice old Dr. Damrosch: "Good afternoon, my dear children...
...dope on warfare is from the inside. At 18 he joined the Royal Flying Corps and served in France as air gunner, dispatch rider, machine-gunner. At 38 he went to Spain to cover the civil war as a Leftist newspaperman. He had the face of a public-school don, but his heart was made of soldiering stuff. In spare time he boned up on automatic weapons, began instructing International brigadiers how to use them, wound up as commander of the British battalion. He was cool as a glass of iced manzanilla. At Jarama he led the puny British left...
...college lacks in swank, it makes up in vigor. Hunter girls, mostly Jewesses who grew up on the sidewalks of New York, go to college to study. Smart (they must pass stiff entrance tests) and hardworking, they often help support their families while attending college. Many Hunter girls become public-school teachers; some, Macy's salesgirls. But most of them (relatively more than at such a college as Vassar) will be housewives...
...these objectors get to see Tom Brown's School Days, they will be rudely surprised. Its view of British public-school life in the 1830s offends only on the side of realism. Author Hughes recognized Headmaster Arnold as the man who made over Rugby. The Towne version shows Dr. Arnold as no Mr. Chips but a hard-hitting, God-fearing birchman. He takes over the school to find it riddled with bullies and liars, throws out so many students that the only trustee who supports him is equally God-fearing Squire Brown (Ernest Cossart). Dr. Arnold...