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...Whittlesey House...
FROM ENGLAND TO AMERICA-Henry Noel Brailsford-Whittlesey House...
Curled back on themselves, and soon on each other, were the flanks, trains and lines of communications of the isolated Allied force. When a battalion front is thus turned and snarled-as was famed Major Whittlesey's Lost Battalion of the A. E. F.-disaster is reckoned in a matter of hours unless, as in Major Whittlesey's case, someone comes up to help it. For with its front flanked on two sides and reversed in the rear, there is little a unit can do to help itself. Military metabolism is just as much in danger of ceasing...
...technical subjects, has a son at Haverford College and a daughter in high school. Mr. Hambidge has lately given much thought to U. S. Education. Last week he published a book on the subject, in the form of letters of advice to his son (New Aims in Education-Whittlesey House-$2). Neither flashy nor profound, Mr. Hambidge's book said in good plain English what many another parent thinks is wrong with U. S. schools...
...Although Britain's blockade may finally wear down Germany's resistance," concluded Professor Whittlesey, "the Nazis will be able to remain self-sufficent for a long time to come. No one can conjecture how long that period will last...