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...class in the Suvorov Military Academy at Kalinin illustrates dominant features of Soviet education since Marshal Stalin abolished coeduca tion (TIME, Aug. 1 6). It is one of nine cadet schools named for the 18th century Russian Field Marshal Alexander Vasilievich Suvorov. Eligible for the school's seven-year course are 10-to-13-year-old sons of Red soldiers, and any boy orphaned by the Germans. Their days are scheduled from 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., with three leisure hours. During the war there are no holidays. Studies include tactics, firearms, military history, drill, automotives, fencing, skiing...
Then a change came o'er the spirit of his dream, and made itself felt in his speeches. From confidently predicting Axis victory he fell to talking gloomily of a six-or seven-year war to the death, then (last May) to calling for peace. The invasion and cleanup of Africa gave Spain a close and eye-popping demonstration of Allied power. On Oct. 1, speaking before the Falange, he omitted the ringing Spanish phrase for "nonbelligerency," used in its place a calm, almost Swiss formula: "vigilant neutrality...
Approved by a Los Angeles court was a seven-year cinecontract to pay a weekly minimum of $150, a maximum of $1,250, to Hollywood Newcomer Mimi Chandler, 16-year-old daughter of Kentucky's Senator A. B. ("Happy...
...socialite now a rock-jawed, boot-tough soldier, won a lieutenant colonel's silver leaves on maneuvers in Louisiana (see cut). Senator A. B. ("Happy") Chandler's 16-year-old torchsinging daughter Mimi went to Hollywood from Kentucky, won a screen test that won her a seven-year contract with Paramount. Into a movie as vocalists with jump-&-jive Bob Crosby's band went a pair of richly endowed twins (see cut): scrumptious Lee & Lynn Wilde, 18, who swore they were the grandnieces of Epigrampus Oscar Wilde. In Miami, Albert John Capone, younger brother of Scarface...
...within the college, many Northern students have taken the stand that introduction of the new plan would not be worth the disturbance it would cause. This, in itself, is not an argument but a weak, defensive stall. The problem of color discrimination will not vanish in time like a seven-year locust; instead its pressure will grow more and more as Negroes contribute to the preservation of the four freedoms. Princeton, far from being a pioneer, would be one of the last Northern universities to fall in line; and the only means of proving to a Southern contingent that color...