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This collegiate ground-breaking is due in no small part to an eleven-year campaign by a bronzed, lean artilleryman at West Point. He is Colonel Herman Beukema, 50, Michigan-born son of a smalltown newspaperman. A West Point graduate ('15), he was stationed in Germany for six months after World War I, there met three brilliant young German officers whose sensational theories about total war launched him on a career as student of geopolitics. Today Colonel Beukema declares that history will rate Karl Haushofer, prophet of German geopolitics, more important than Adolf Hitler, because Haushofer's studies...
...last fall superpatriots, led by Merwin K. Hart, president of the New York State Economic Council, had ousted Dr. Rugg's books from a number of smalltown schools (TIME, Sept. 9), had got them banished entirely from the Georgia list. At a hearing before the Georgia Board of Education, a State police captain pointed a finger at Professor Rugg, cried: "There sits the ringmaster of the Fifth Columnists in America, financed by the Russian government...
...last fortnight Rugg book burnings began to blaze afresh in the smalltown, American Legion belt. In rapid succession the school boards of Mountain Lakes and Wayne Township, N. J. banished Rugg texts that had been used by their pupils nearly ten years. Explained Wayne Township's Board Member Ronald Gall: "In my opinion, the books are un-American but not anti-American...
...typical small-town newspaper is the News-Commercial, published in Collins, Miss. (pop. 1,100) by a typical smalltown editor: Mayor and onetime Lawyer James Duncan Arlington. Unlike many another small-town newspaper, the four-page, weekly News-Commercial (circulation: 1,350) does not take itself too seriously. Once it printed a list of delinquent subscribers under the head: "Shall the Dead Live Again?" Lately it quipped editorially: "We see ... where they have started a new kind of paper [the tabloid, PM] in New York. No advertisements will be carried in it. There ain't nothing new about that...
...Past the End of the Pavement-Charles G. Finney-Holt ($2). A nostalgic tale of smalltown, small-boy Missouri brothers with a passion for odd pets. Author Finney (The Circus of Dr. Lao) describes the animals brightly, designs his laughs for adults...