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...spent a full life as conductor, impresario and master of ceremonies bringing classical music to U.S. listeners, found time to do some composing of his own (The Man Without a Country); in Manhattan. During the '30s, his Friday-morning radio hour introduced the masters to millions of schoolchildren. "Realizing the joys that music can bring to men," he once said, "I have done my utmost to spread its gospel...
Berlin's RIAS (Radio in American Sector) last week released a letter by a Soviet sector listener describing an "entertainment" for parents by East Zone schoolchildren...
...school kids in the Ontario city of Sault Ste. Marie (pop. 32,000) were having their heads examined last week. And with good reason: the Soo had been hit by a raging epidemic of tinea capitis (ringworm of the scalp). Of 5,712 elementary schoolchildren, 1,300 had ringworm; so had 150 preschool moppets and 64 youths and adults. On streets and playgrounds, every bobbing head was topped with a white cotton skullcap, compulsory for schoolchildren, strongly recommended for all others. It was the severest ringworm epidemic ever recorded in Canada...
This week, in a special issue devoted exclusively to U.S. education, LIFE gives one man's answer to that question. If it is an answer bound to disturb the teachers' colleges, it is one even more likely to disturb the parents of U.S. schoolchildren...
...tooth powder had been tested first in the laboratory by Dr. Helmut A. Zander of Tufts College Dental School. Then schoolchildren in Walpole, Mass, were used as human guinea pigs. In the first year, 216 children at the Stone School, who used powder containing penicillin, got 55% fewer cavities than 162 children at the Plimpton School, who used a powder identical in ingredients except for the penicillin. In the second year, the Stone School showed 54% fewer cavities than Plimpton, which seemed to prove that mouth bacteria did not become resistant to penicillin...