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Nevertheless, McNiff likes his Glass Palace. His highest praise for it is this: "If the library staff were to start over from scratch with the experience of the last five years, we would make only minor changes." As far as its staff is concerned, Lamont seems to have passed the test of time as well as was expected--which was very well indeed...
...responsible for the rebuilding of Zeiss-are two crusty septuagenarians: Walter Bauersfeld, 72, inventor of the planetarium and a 46-year Zeissman; and Paul Henrichs, 71, who joined the company in 1901 and was longtime boss of its British operations. East & West. Zeiss's postwar comeback started from scratch, after the U.S. occupation forces pulled back from Jena and the Russians took over. But the U.S. had managed to salvage something. It sent a fleet of trucks to Jena and moved 124 top Zeissmen into the Western zone. Under the leadership of Bauersfeld and Henrichs. they rented floor space...
...Walter had rigged up a hi-fi record player, and Toscanini used it to study his old recordings, listening for flaws.* Walter always tried to be around to help : the old man, never an able hand with mechanical gadgets, is likely to jiggle the tone arm and scratch the records. Evenings on the island, the're would be recorded concerts in his bedroom of music that Toscanini had either recorded or broadcast. He would sit on his bed as the music played, eyes blazing as if he were on the podium, conducting energetically and singing the music to himself...
...Scratch Deeper. But the bright and conscientious boy or girl is frequently forced to endure, at least in elementary schools, an atmosphere of jostling vulgarity and revolt against authority. It is an atmosphere reflected in the persistent vandalism with which the school system must eternally contend. New York replaces 150,000 broken school windowpanes annually and has long since resigned itself to the fact that a particularly obscene four-letter word will be continually scratched on the wall surfaces of nearly every building (since replastering is expensive and ineffective, janitors simply scratch deeper, change the word to BOOK and leave...
...wearing job. Said one Harlem junior-high-school teacher of his all-girl classes: "You've got to get between them before they start fighting-they don't just scratch; they dig in and bring away skin and meat." Said another instructor: "I have to fight to avoid sinking into the mire of their emotions." Said a Brooklyn science teacher: "I have to be 90% warden, 7% wet nurse and 3% teacher...