The Education Race
Ever since the Russians launched their first Sputnik there has been a furor in American education.
It has been charged that students graduate from high school without a knowledge of fundamentals necessary in today’s society.
It has also been stated that they are coddled and that schooling to most of them is little more than a pleasant social experience. If we are to meet Russia on equal terms, the outcry goes, we must tighten up, particularly in math and science.
Let us now pay attention to the mother of a child in a west side junior high school. Continue reading
It’s every reporter’s dream to lay aside his battered old felt hat, shred his press card into confetti, turn his World War II surplus trench coat over to the Salvation Army, take his smudgy copy pencils one by one and snap them into little pieces, and — casting a defiant look at his city editor as he leaves — go home, strip down to his waist, put on his imported silk smoking jacket, retreat up to the attic with his favorite pipe, wipe the dust off his lonely, long-idle portable, sit down, squeeze into his slippers, and knock out the great American novel.
Here’s the former 
Note: This is an encore post from 2008.
No, the object at left is not a flying saucer on a stick. It is, in fact, Los Angeles’ earliest attempt at street lighting in which carbon arc lights were mounted on tall poles around the city. This one was near 7th Street and Alameda, where a 20-story wireless telegraph antenna was being built. That’s some skyhook, folks.
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