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...puzzled over the many seesaws of Spain's war, with victory now teetering on the side of the Leftists, now tilting back to the Rightists, could thank the Satevepost last week for a professional military analysis of the war by Major Thomas R. Phillips, faculty member of the top-rank U. S. Army Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kans...
...other hand the Yale team boasts three top-rank fencers headed by Maurice Crasson, son of the Yale coach. The other members of the Blue squads have been unimpressive in matches to date...
Building America is published by the Society for Curriculum Study, whose 900 members include some of the nation's top-rank educators. It is partly supported by the Lincoln School of Columbia's Teachers College, until this year had a staff of WPA researchers. Claiming to be impartial, scientific, it presents the problems of modern civilization to junior and senior high-school children. Its creed: "The American people have so far mastered the forces of nature that, for the first time in history, we can now live in an age of plenty for all." It publishes eight issues...
...private contributions) to run Junior Programs, Inc. A company of artists gets from $200 to $400 for a performance. Local parent-teacher associations, boards of education or other groups sponsor the performances, put them on in schools or rented halls. All this makes it possible to give children top-rank musical and dramatic shows at 10¢ to 25?. The companies play an average of five times a week, frequently to overflow audiences. In Gallipolis, Ohio (pop. 7,100) a ballet drew 1,500 children from all the countryside. In Hartford's (Conn.) Bushnell Memorial Auditorium last year...
...format of FORTUNE, was a great success. Its first printing of 3,000 copies was quickly exhausted, likewise a second printing of 1,000 copies. Today, as Secretary Shiebler is getting his third illustrated report ready for press, his files are laden with 10,000 letters from parents and top-rank educators who admired his first two efforts, and publishers have made offers to print it commercially...