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...1920s, young mothers rejected every last remnant of Victorianism. Mother love was replaced by "science." Freudianism was being "interpreted to mean that repression was bad for the child." The "feed-'em-on-schedule, let-'em-cry-it-out" school of thought was in command...
Rifles & Rice. Two months ago the tattered remnant of a beaten Nationalist army started pouring into Hainan from South China. Hungry soldiers roamed Haikow's crooked, dirty streets and sold their rifles for rice. The Little Tiger struggled for discipline. Demoralized troops were moved out of the towns into the countryside, paid in silver dollars (for a change), reorganized and re-equipped. Hsueh now has 160,000 men of varying fitness. His best units are digging in along the white sand beaches of Hainan's northern coast...
...along, among the nation's top military men, there had been two conflicting theories about the threatened island of Formosa, 100 miles off the Asiatic coast and the last defendable anti-Communist remnant of China. Douglas MacArthur and Louis Johnson wanted to go to Formosa's aid. The Joint Chiefs of Staff, who have consistently low-rated Asia, argued that the risks weren't worth the gain. Last week, in a day-long meeting at the Pentagon, the Joint Chiefs took second thought...
...converting the island into a Nationalist redoubt. China's war had entered a phase of last-ditch peripheral resistance. In the far Northwest, Moslem Warlord Ma Pufang was using his hard-riding horsemen to harry the Communist inland flank (TIME, June 27). From Formosa the Gimo's remnant navy and air force, carrying on a blockade of sorts, were needling the Communist coastal flank...
...Banks, and how he became a remnant of his former self during the months just before his daughter's marriage, is the subject of the newest book by Edward Streeter, Manhattan banker and author of such occasional studies of U.S. types as Dere Mable (the World War I doughboy) and Daily Except Sundays (the harassed commuter). Father is one of the best of the Streeter studies: a simple-sentence, large-print piece of summer reading, as easy to absorb as sunshine...