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That poor food has some connection with poor hearing in growing children has long been suspected. Last week, in the Lancet, Dr. Phyllis Toohey Kerridge of London University bolstered up this theory by publishing results of her hearing tests on 1,000 English school children. Middle ear deafness, found Dr. Kerridge, "is about four times as common, on the average, under poor social conditions as it is under good social conditions; in the poorest places ... it may be nearly ten times as common as in a good environment, nearly a quarter of the child population being affected. Climate, housing...
Last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Rupert Brandon Raney of the University of Southern California's medical school reported "a hitherto undescribed surgical procedure relieving attacks of angina pectoris." Eleven patients, said Dr. Raney, underwent this remarkable operation. There were "no deaths, and all ... obtained complete relief . . . from desperate attacks" sometimes occurring as often as ten times...
Nobody can learn to be a good citizen by studying a textbook. But textbooks have something to do with it. And the quality of U. S. school textbooks depends to a considerable degree on an earnest group of 3,000-members of the National Council for the Social Studies. They are the people who write most of the history for school children, devise courses of study in history, civics, economics, geography, sociology. They take their jobs and themselves seriously. Distressed but not daunted by evidence that, in spite of their textbooks (and the field investigations which they prescribe for students...
...last week Professor Rugg and Professor Wilson (now on the faculty of Harvard's Graduate School of Education and editor of a series of social studies texts published by American Book Co.) had patched up their feud. Both contributed to the National Council's new book...
Manhattan's Pratt School of Business bestowed on Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia a testimonial of special merit. Reason: 30 years ago it had taught him shorthand and typing in 30 hours. The Mayor's counter-testimonial: the day he finished his 30-hour course (cost $7.50), he got a job with Abercrombie & Fitch at $18 a week...