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...Tokyo schoolchildren wrote to the zoo keepers to say that the slaughter of their animals constituted "unbearable acts of indignity." To console them, the keepers had the beasts stuffed and reinstalled in their cages or in glass showcases. In death as in life the zoo's star attraction was Tora San, the huge tiger. Propped up before a painted backdrop of lush green jungle, his bared fangs sent many a moppet scurrying closer to his mother's kimono...
Through the Curtains. He wrote Governor Kim Sigler that liquor was being sold to schoolchildren while city officials, all "drinking men," looked the other way. Peering through the parsonage's curtains, he said, he had seen: "Schoolchildren taking nips between dances from bottles hidden in snowdrifts . . . boys & girls undressing and committing indecencies in parked cars...
...early T.B. detection) have done most to take the T.B. death rate for a fall. This year a large-scale BCG (for bacillus of Calmette and Guerin, named for its discoverers) vaccination project (TIME, Nov. 11) may take it still further. The plan, to vaccinate 100,000 U.S. schoolchildren against tuberculosis, has already been begun in Columbus, Ga., will soon move on to T.B. areas in large cities (including San Francisco's Chinatown). U.S. specialists, who have long viewed BCG with suspicion in spite of its prewar successes in the Scandinavian countries, are now more enthusiastic; the San Francisco...
...masterly retreat from Rome in 1944, it was "a military principle" which led him to order 10-for-1 reprisals for the killing of 32 SS troopers by Italian guerrillas. He ordered the killing of 335 Romans in the Ardeatine Caves (among the victims were women, schoolchildren, babies and 15 persons rounded up at the last minute as "extras"). Two subordinate German generals have been sentenced to death for that outrage (TIME, Dec. 9). But pug-faced, "Smiling Albert" Kesselring was still a good enough soldier to insist, "If there is any guilt, it is mine and mine alone...
...commission found that both rural schoolchildren and their taxpaying parents are being "robbed." The larceny is not confined to poor communities. In fact, it is more apt to be an "extravagance" of wealthier districts, where for a variety of reasons (vested tax interests, local pride, standpattism) schools are not put where they should be, or consolidated when a merger would give everybody better schooling. West Virginia generally provides better rural education than richer Illinois, say the commissioners; some of the nation's best districts (e.g., in Fayette County, Ky.) and some of the worst (e.g., in Harlan County...