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...Spanish, and Italian pupils ("All the boys are interested in," said one, "is women and shirking work"). The teachers rapped knuckles, shouted and yelled. One teacher ripped up pupils' notebooks whenever they were not perfectly neat. Another punished a child by having the whole class line up to smack him. In P.S. 10 ("A prison," said the school's principal), some kids were kept away from class for as long as a month, seated in an anteroom where teacher-clerks, to discipline them, kept them idle and quiet...
...time when international relations once again smack hellishly of war, and when the field of dynamic political leaders is so sparse, ought we to overlook any presidential candidate on the grounds of small, personal prejudice? Shouldn't we instead study the factual achievements of his case history? If MacArthur pats himself on the back, who knows, we may find he has a right to. It doesn't harm us much, and certainly a timid man won't get far with Russia. Forrest Powers...
Reports emanating from other parts of the H.A.A. figured Valpey for head coach with Bill Barclay as the next backfield coach and chief assistant. To this suggestion football squad members voiced cool comments, saying such a move would smack of the old regime...
...Harold Stassen bayed excitedly on Speculator Ed Pauley's trail last week, he ran smack into Maryland's lank-cheeked Senator Millard Tydings. Drawing himself up to his full height before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee, Senator Tydings demanded: "Have you any evidence of any person in Government who has given any inside information to any speculator in any market?" Stassen's answer was a weak "No." He said he was "relying on the pattern of operations rather than any specific evidence...
...only in Menjou, who admits knowing no Communist, worthless as a testifier, but the charges smack of the preposterous. The great bulk of American movies, present a glamourized version of what Louis B. Mayer calls, "the American way of life," almost always avoiding red hot political issues. The mass-production of wishful thinking and the reluctance to deal with controversial problems may themselves be an indictment against Hollywood, but that is not in Mr. Rankin's field...