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...Courts Building. While photographers ran ahead of the poker-faced broker, snapping his long, elegantly dressed frame and the little Porcellian pig glistening at his watch chain, several hundred idlers trailed in his wake. "Who is it?" cried a woman. "It's Whitney!" screamed a group of giggling schoolchildren...
Instead of a formal curriculum, Roslyn's schools have an activities program. Thus its schoolchildren build boats or Indian tepees, and in so doing learn incidentally to read & write, learn something about history, science, art. When Roslyn's boys make nut bread, Superintendent Wegner explained, they not only enjoy a creative activity but learn to add, subtract & multiply...
...reading, arithmetic, language usage and spelling, Roslyn's 900 elementary schoolchildren are slightly below normal, but the reason is not a failure in instruction but the fact that their average intelligence is below par (median I. Q.: 96).* The committee concluded the children were performing up to their ability...
Detroit suffered a thoroughgoing scare, for closely associated with Helen Abney for three nights were 100 other young & lithe girls who taxi-danced for a living and a thousand men who danced with them. Few of the dancers dared feel safe against smallpox contagion. When schoolchildren, some had evaded the usually compulsory vaccination against this comparatively rare disease.* Practically none of the others knew that vaccination may provide protection for only five years. By means of newspapers and radio Detroit's Health Commissioner Henry F. Vaughan last week explained all this to Detroit's citizens and plenty...
...facts on which Building America is based come from authoritative treatises and periodicals like FORTUNE. Each issue is submitted to experts on both sides of controversial questions before publication. Although every issue asks U. S. schoolchildren to think about how better use can be made of the nation's resources. Building America has thus far escaped serious attack. Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram denounced the Power issue as propaganda for public ownership of electric utilities, but that dispute wound up with Scripps-Howard's Editor George B. Parker eulogizing the magazine...