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...this tense atmosphere, the George Washington of the Philippines spoke, to 250,000 of his countrymen massed around, the words which unborn generations of Filipino schoolchildren will presumably have to memorize...
...English-speaking schoolchildren get much fun out of the comedies of William Shakespeare. When they grow up they go to see Shakespeare revived by commonplace companies with routine reverence, by theatrical archeologists with tedious authenticity, by smart alecks in modern dress. And for many & many an adult the Bard still remains a bore. With eight Shakespearean revivals slated for Broadway this season, with Hollywood equally active and on the eve of releasing Max Reinhardt's three-hour film version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, last week the amount of potential ennui the U. S. amusement industry...
Last week New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman announced that, in the course of his conference on Crime, the Criminal & Society at Albany next week, he would appeal by radio for the support of the State's schoolchildren. If he should wish to liven his speech by a few examples, the Governor could choose from the following items in last week's news...
...promise not to be quoted by name, their grave doubts as to the future of that pedantic, elephantine form of learning which has always proudly called itself German Scholarship with a capital S. The only way to produce such Scholars, the savants moaned last week, is to keep German schoolchildren grinding at their lessons six days out of every week and to hound them so vigorously that suicides just before examination time have long been a German academic commonplace...
...first semester to join the Tigers at their training camp, played on Detroit's minor league "farms" for three seasons, rejoined the Tigers two years ago. So far this year he has made 34 homeruns, surpassed Gehrig's batting average .342 to .340. The idol of Detroit schoolchildren, he is approved by baseball-minded Jewish matrons because he is handsome, frisky and religiously orthodox. He has invented his own glove, which is larger than standard, with webbing between thumb and index finger. He makes $7,000 a year, prefers not to play on Yom Kippur. Next week...