Word: supplement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Abraham Merritt, 59, editor Hearst's American Weekly; of a heart ailment ; in Indian Rock Beach, Fla. An associate editor of the Weekly since 1912, Scientifictioneer Merritt became editor in 1937; since then the Sunday supplement's circulation has grown from 6,000,000 to almost 8,000,000. On the side he was a cold-sweat novelist (Seven Footprints to Satan) and a garden cultivator of mandrake, monkshood and other varieties of backyard deliriants...
...three years the London Times Educational Supplement and the Supplement's editor, energetic, fiftyish Harold Collett Dent, have been pitching thunderbolts, helping arouse the public until Parliament is cornered. A reform program, presented to Parliament by the head of the Board of Education, would use the first seven postwar years to create a system costing ?67,400,000 more annually, a more than 50% hike in the British education budget. Some proposed reforms...
...Bloody, Bold and Resolute." Editor Dent, the son of a nonconformist preacher, has given the Times's still ponderous, now reformist educational supplement more influence in England than any general educational magazine has in the U.S. He likes to quote Shakespeare: "Be bloody, bold and resolute," and he has a popular cause in Britain's war-born determination that higher education shall not be confined to England's moneyed classes...
Phillip M. "Phil" Sirrine, 7-43, Albion '40, and Grand Rapids Michigan. He majored in music, plays the sax and clarinet, and used to supplement his income by teaching music...
...with a pleasant, nutty flavor, so cheap to produce (10? a lb.) that the British Government has started building a plant in Jamaica to make 2,000 tons of Thaysen's "food yeast" a year.* Chemist Thaysen at most expected to serve his yeast in concentrated doses to supplement a poor diet; despite its pleasant flavor, he did not conceive of Torula utilis as a candidate to upset the world's food economy...