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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marguerite Wilker Johnson, a supervisor of the University's laboratory elementary school, tried out the relative effectiveness of cajolery, flattery, commands, threats and scolding on 40 matched pairs of children aged 2½ to 8½. One youngster of a pair received specific instructions, the other general ones; one simple instructions, the other verbose; etc. All told, some 26 kinds of persuasion were tried. Highlights of Dr. Johnson's report...
...have been content to compose in one direction. Not so the famed, self-exiled German modernist, Paul Hindemith. Twelve years ago, before Nazi censors decided he was a Kulturbolschewist, sad-eyed Composer Hindemith dished up a whole opera in crab style. Last week an enterprising group of Juilliard Graduate School alumni gave this crab-style opera its first Manhattan hearing...
...violinist in three symphonies, for ten years head of the department of theory and composition of the New York Philharmonic Scholarship School and for the past year the editor in charge of TIME'S music department (but not of this review), Winthrop Sargeant is not concerned in his Jazz: Hot and Hybrid* with the question of whether Benny Goodman is a better hot clarinetist than Joe Marsala or who played the piano on Fletcher Henderson's record of Wang Wang Blues. Instead, he rolls up his sleeves and squares off with a lucid chapter on "Improvisation, Notation...
...Gynecologist Thomas Stephen Cullen has taught every student who ever graduated from Johns Hopkins Medical School. Nearly as famous for his practical jokes as for his surgical exploits, Dr. Cullen has been known to list his occupation as "interior decorator," has upon occasion posed for anatomical illustrations in medical texts. Several years ago at ceremonies to install Dr. Roland Hill as president of the St. Louis Medical Society, a large box was presented to the guest of honor, after a long speech celebrating his accomplishments. Urged by his distinguished colleagues to open the box, Dr. Hill removed the lid, took...
Grim, grey-haired Dr. Bessie R. Burchett, a high-school Latin teacher in Philadelphia, mortally fears Jews, radicals, labor leaders. To defend herself, she used to carry two guns, a six-shooter in her handbag, an automatic strapped to her leg under her skirt. Once she brandished a pistol in a newsman's face, declared: "Those Communists will never take me alive." Disarmed by the Board of Education, she hired two bodyguards, scattered scarehead pamphlets by the thousands, tried to break up meetings of "Reds," invited teachers to join an "American National Socialist Party." Last week her pupils...