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...Thirteen members of the New York Music Critics' Circle, whose favor can lead to national fame, met in a beery, benevolent back room of Manhattan's Blue Ribbon restaurant. But their task had something of the atmosphere of a coroner's inquest. Several of the members were in favor of calling the whole thing off. All were aware that the year had probably produced not a single U.S. symphonic composition capable of rousing any spontaneous or permanent affection from the U.S. listening public. The five final entries had been played on two NBC Sunday afternoon nationwide hookups...
...Thirteen of the former Fellows are now in military service, ten with the Office of War information. Four are on war correspondent assignments
Veterans of seventeen days at he NS CS (4/7.4/23, inclusive dates) every Wave feels as harrassed and harried as an S.O. or a D.O. after his ninth fogey. Those first thirteen disbursing problems with their 845 answers threatened to crush hitherto battered but unbroken spirits...
...insufficient knowledge of the names of the original thirteen colonies or of the career of Nicholas Biddle that is responsible for the lack of judgment at the ballot boxes displayed by large sectors of the American public. It would have taken more than a knowledge of which Presidents have been assassinated to save American public opinion from the almost tragic cancer of isolationism that afflicted it. Teaching methods are made the issue by the Times report, with the result that the importance of emphasis is ignored. The stress on social implications that has resulted in the substitution of "social sciences...
Still another fault to be found (they keep cropping up), which led the Professor Holmes' statement that "These startling things aren't so startling" was the opening question, "Name the thirteen original states." Newspaper headlines may make the fact that only six per cent of the freshmen polled could do this but while very few people can name all 13, a fair question which called for 11 or even 12 might have produced a more favorable result to the students, although not to the Times' campaign to have American history made a compulsory study...