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...Austin's Hotel Driskill fortnight ago, some 75 agents for U. S. textbook publishers sucked at and crushed out innumerable cigarets, talked in strained voices. They were waiting for the Texas State Board of Education to award contracts worth millions of dollars for 29 books for Texas schoolchildren. Of all the agents, none paced the floor more nervously than those of Manhattan's Harcourt, Brace & Co. and Chicago's Row, Peterson Co. Everyone knew that the fiercest schoolbook contest of the year in Texas was between these two, for the adoption of a seventh-grade history...
...Annual the next best showing of any art museum in the country was made by the Joslyn Memorial Museum in Omaha, Neb., with 49%. Director Godwin and his wife, Molly Ohl Godwin, have built up this following by offering free courses in drawing, painting and music to all the schoolchildren of Toledo, by bringing the best symphony orchestras for free concerts in the Museum's peristyle, thus spending Founder Libbey's money as much for the benefit of Toledo's citizens as for the enrichment of their museum...
...Paris, an express train bound for St. Etienne pulled out 15 min. late, bearing scores of vacationing schoolchildren and pilgrims returning to southern France from Lisieux. Nine miles south of the capital, the locomotive leaped off the track, dragging the forward coaches with it. Twenty-five dead and 50 injured were taken from the jumbled mass of wreckage. Railway officials ascribed the wreck to an "error in switching...
Museum, which is full of scientific and industrial exhibits in operation and which Bavarian schoolchildren are required by law to visit once a year. In 1926 Julius Rosenwald gave $3,000,000 to Chicago for the as yet incompleted Rosenwald Museum of Science & Industry, patterned after the Deutsches...
...schoolchildren of London learned last week that they will choose 40,000 of their number by vote to see the Coronation procession from great grandstands along the Thames Embankment. From towns near London 8,000 schoolchildren will be brought and as the grandstands will be uncovered appeals were launched last week for gifts of child-size raincoats to add to His Majesty's Government's revolving store. These number some 500 today, are loaned free to London children too poor to show up on such occasions in the raincoats all schoolchildren in the capital are always asked...