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...last word in Army etiquette came last week from Australia. General Douglas MacArthur, 63. played Emily Post. His confused pupil was Lee Van Atta. 24, I.N.S. Australian bureau head and ex-Hollywood juvenile (Captains Courageous...
Whalebone tough as he is, Henry Ford had never expected (until recently) to outlive his only son. All his life Edsel was the pupil, his father the teacher, empire management the subject. As a baby, Edsel watched his father tinker with his first horseless carriage, rode proudly on a special little seat when it first sputtered along Detroit's dusty Bagley Avenue...
...Henry Ford confidently stated that he could build 1,000 planes a day, it was up to Edsel to prove that the company could at least build 500 planes a month at Willow Run (he lived to see the goal in sight). The teacher still created problems for the pupil to solve...
Practical-minded Professor Kelly began on the ground. He used an electrical inter phone and radio transmitter to listen to scores of teacher-pupil conversations in the air. He analyzed the results and found no instruction "which might be said to be both complete and correct." Four instructors used 500 technical terms, of which only 70 were common to all four. One used 265 terms which were never used by the other three. Among them, they used 14 different expressions to instruct students to increase and 20 to reduce power, 33 for turns, 18 for describing control motions...
When the two fighters climbed into the Garden ring last week, Armstrong's comeback was already a success. Madison Square Garden was jammed and the gate was nearly $105,000, more than Armstrong ever drew there when he was a triple champion. Dusky Jack, obviously no calf-eyed pupil, pounced upon him with trip-hammer lefts and jolting right uppercuts. Armstrong just put his head down and bored in, soon made Jack back away, in the ninth and tenth rounds kept him well backed against the ropes...