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Under the hard ground of the cemetery at North Creek, N. Y., last week was buried a swart, nameless giant who died in a blaze of gunfire among the snowbound mountains of Essex County earlier this month.. Police and U. S. Army records had failed to identify him. But inhabitants of the vicinity had not ceased to wonder and talk about the prodigious "wild man of the Adirondacks" and the terror he spread in the three days it took to catch...
...Radioed to the U. S. (his aged mother was listening in at Rochester, N. Y.) : "The aims of the new Government [of which he is President] are simple. I know of no words in which I can express them better than in this quotation...
Mail addressed in the past few months "To the Gamest Kid in America" has found its way directly to Clarence Hastings, City Hospital, Syracuse, N. Y. He was 14 and a hero, having lived in a Drinker respirator one day longer than anyone else. His runner-up was Birdsall Sweet, also 14, of Beacon, N. Y. The infantile paralysis epidemic of last summer and autumn (TIME, Feb. 15, et ante) had put them in respirators, big sheet steel cans which made a bellows of their listless lungs, pumped air into them (TIME, Sept. 8, 1930; Sept. 21). Stories of Clarence...
Last week the Noise Abatement Commission set up its noise-making gadget (3A audiometer) in Riverdale Country School at Riverdale-on-Hudson, N. Y. For four days 200 boys, divided in two groups, were bothered during daily one-hour examinations by loud noise (70 decibels), moderate noise (55) and plain ordinary room noise (30 to 35). The boys grew tired, their work grew worse in proportion to the noise. Conditions were better than in the average city school, for no attempt was made to duplicate the sharp sudden noises of traffic at its peak. The Riverdale boys could endure monotonous...
...Cooperstown, N. Y. is the Beasley School which teaches boys to concentrate by the very means which the Noise Abatement Commission deplores. Beasley School was founded in 1928 by Chauncey Haven Beasley, onetime Latin teacher at Pomfret, inventor of Golfits Latine which makes a parlor game of declensions and conjugations. Headmaster Beasley, aware that most businessmen must work amid distracting noises, devised two years ago a Concentration Course which has now become his school's chief feature. Every day, first thing in the morning, his 31 students (aged 8 to 16) meet and concentrate together. Older boys get harder...