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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Youth & Ability. The sort of Government technicians which Economic Boss Cripps wants and which Attlee is giving him is exemplified by three of the new men under Cripps. They are youngish men of education and proved ability, whose political views are secondary. One is Hugh Gaitskell, 41, the new Minister of Fuel & Power, a Winchester-Oxford product, a coolly effective parliamentarian who as Shinwell's subordinate made a better showing than his chief...
Soviet Russia spends a larger percentage of its national income on public education than any other nation. What sort of education is it? In a new book, out last week, the Russians answer for themselves. I Want to Be Like Stalin (John Day; $2) is a translation by George S. Counts and Nucia P. Lodge from an official Soviet text on teacher training-a sort of catechism of Communist right & wrong for Soviet teachers. It is as soggily written as books on pedagogy are apt to be under any form of government, but behind the dull words is a horrifying...
Hollywood marked the beginning of a long, curious period of Hammerstein failure. He worked on a dozen musicals between 1930 and 1942, but few were hits. He suffered the lean years stoically. In 1940 he bought, as a sort of refuge, a farm near Doylestown, Pa. People said that Oscar Hammerstein was through; he claims that he was kept going by a "certain inner conceit...
...geography. Bozo's sales: 1,000,000. Most of the companies are dead serious about their job as molders of the young mind. When a Columbia Records survey showed that the story children most wanted recorded was Superman, Columbia sternly refused, because it was "not interested in that sort of thing...
This time, Mr. Stewart is a sort of Gallup pollster. Pretending to be an insurance man, he descends on an unsuspecting U.S. town and pumps the townspeople dry of their opinions on everything under the sun. As he pumps, he falls in love with the town and some of its inhabitants, notably Jane Wyman. In turn, everyone trusts, likes or loves Jimmy. But much as it goes against his conscience, he must be true...