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...Chicago's public schools, where the low quality of handwriting is a much debated subject, manuscript writing (printing) is taught only through the second grade. After that, cursive writing (joining the letters together) is pretty much left to the discretion of teachers. A student in suburban Winnetka who had been taught to letter but not to write, tried to open a bank account, was turned down by the bank, which ruled that block lettering was too imitable a signature...
...shall the enemy be re-educated and by whom? While statesmen and educators debate, the Allied Commission in Italy has already made a start. An Educational Subcommission headed by Major C. W. Washburne, onetime Winnetka, Ill. superintendent of schools, is now distributing a million new textbooks for little ex-Fascists...
...satirical guide to seduction (Seductio ad Absurdum). In 1930 she turned up in the Belgian Congo wearing shorts and pith helmet, and wrote a book about it (With Naked Foot). After a spell as a reporter in London, footloose Emily's flight from the domestic atmosphere of Winnetka took her in 1935 to newspaper work in Shanghai and an unconventional apartment in the city's red-light district. She stayed in the Orient long enough to contribute numerous Chinese vignettes to the New Yorker, write a book about China's most famous women (The Soong Sisters), have...
...material-scrimping war models, she is in the market for glittering sequin evening gowns "that I can slip out of easily." Practically any old phonograph record will sell, and dresses with full-length zippers are snatched out of the hands of delivery men. The Woman's Society of Winnetka's Congregational Church cleared $7,400 in a one-day sale, with more than 5,000 people scrabbling for old lamps, jewelry, and clothes hangers. In swank Lake Forest, upper-crust ladies clamor for silk evening gowns that can be converted to nightgowns...
Other officers elected were Robert B. Wilcox '44, of Winthrop House and Winnetka, Illinois, vice-president, and Charles R. Weaver '44, of Lowell House and Garrett Park, Maryland, secretary...