Word: reade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brian opened his first school in two abandoned hospital tents. As his pupils learned English, O'Brian mastered Trukese. He taught them to read their own language, using a Trukese Bible that early missionaries had translated. He got older natives to give classes in planting and canoe-making, and he himself lectured constantly on sanitation. "We must use the toilets and not the school grounds," he would say. "We must never eat food off the ground . . . We must not store our dead fish in our foot lockers" (which the Trukese had gotten from the Navy...
...Henning's copy, most of them were fond of him personally. A gentle, friendly little man with iron-grey hair and a big, upturned grin, he is, in the words of a veteran colleague, "the nicest, mildest-mannered guy you'd ever want to meet. Then you read that stuff he writes and it's startling...
Capitalist Come-Ons. Such pressure on the staff does not make for lively writing. To get the paper as read as it is Red, the Worker started printing such capitalist come-ons as cartoon strips and columns on homemaking, sports and Broadway. The party line comes through, even in the Broadway column by Barnard Rubin, ex-corporal on the Pacific Stars and Stripes. (When he was kicked off the paper by General MacArthur in 1946, Rubin denied he was a Communist, and yowled that MacArthur was infringing on freedom of the press-TIME, March u, 1946. Rubin started working...
...Grantly Dick, Read (TIME, July 22, 1946) began campaigning for "natural" childbirth some 30 years ago. His prescription for the delivery room: banish fear, use as few drugs as possible. Two years ago Dr. Read came to the U.S. and found interested listeners in Dr. Herbert Thorns and Dr. Frederick W. Goodrich...
...Yale University School of Medicine. Adopting the Read idea, they made improvements as they went along. Last week Dr. Goodrich reported to Manhattan's Maternity Center Association the favorable results in 400 cases, the first wholesale trial of the Read treatment...