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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That Grace Knight Babson, wife of financial prognosticator Roger Ward Babson, conducts a business school, Webber College, for young lady heiresses at Babson Park, Fla., is not news. That for the first time the school will operate for nine months, spending the Fall and Spring terms in Boston with classrooms in the gaudy Hotel Lenox, is news...
Nearby, Prognosticator Babson (see p. 52) conducts a similar school for rising young men (Babson Institute), who study at businesslike desks, speak their examinations into whirring dictaphones, con Babson graphs, charts, advice sheets. The Babsons may be the unconscious go-betweens in many a happy timocratic union...
Dimly Miss Oelrichs remembers the house at Newport where she spent her childhood, petticoated among socialites who were her family's friends. But while Miss Oelrichs was still young her mother divorced Mr. Oelrichs on grounds of cruelty. With alimony small, with income from other sources slight, young "Bubbles" Oelrichs found herself growing up to the problem of maintaining a position with little money...
CLASS OF 1902-Ernst Glaeser-Viking ($2.50). In All Quiet on the Western Front (TIME, June 17), Author Erich Maria Remarque wrote of the old-young men of Germany who were destroyed, whether they died or not, on the battle front. Class of 1902 is by a younger and hence luckier author. For the "class of 1902" to which Author Glaeser belonged, was the German Army designation for those born in 1902 who, aged 12-16 in 1914-18, were just about to be called to the Western Front when the Armistice was signed. Thus Author Glaeser remained, his novel...
Spectator. The story opens in 1914 with one Brosius, a high school teacher as brutal as the one in Remarque's book, bullying delicate young Leo Silberstein, a Jew. Leo serves only to provide the author with the bleak picture of a despised race. The author is likewise merely a spectator when adults talk politics; when the workers march singing behind their arrested leader; when Germans who were once social and political enemies fall hysterically into each other's arms because "they need their hatred for the other people''; when philosophical Ferd is stoned for predicting...