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HOW DO women buy canned fruit which they can't pinch, squeeze or gouge? Does tweaking the label satisfy them? . . On one of my visits to the City Market, where I buy yogurt and blackstrap molasses, I took the time to make a study of women buying fruit and vegetables. Wow. : As a child I was taught to keep my grubby little mitts off food. The rule was to look, choose and eat. This rule applied at home and it also my-mother made didn’t apply to her. I could never understand why she had the right to tear into a pile of pears or plums or. grapes. ' If she bought one dozen pears, she handled three dozen. After she was through, the soft ones were softer, the hard ones were ready for someone else to buy. :

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OUR WOMEN have improved in many respects in the 25 years (I began to ogle at the age of 6) that they have been observed by yours truly. Without half trying I could name two improvements. The fruit-pinching, however, as practiced by the weaker sex hasn’t. If anything, it's getting worse. Just before the City Market closed, one, of the stand owners with whom I was sympathizing said there wasn't a thing he could do about the situation. “Women just naturally love to pinch and If I put a sign up that the fruit and

squeeze.

OUCH-—Is there any way, a bachelor asks, te stop women from pinching, squeezing, gouging fruit?

It Hapoened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW DELHI, India, Sept. 6—0Our expedition flew 'way out here, 2300 miles from Beirut, to meet the people of India—and met Justice William O..Douglas instead. Yes, we have now brought you 12,565 miles from Toots Shor’'s and Lindy's. Our watches are 10 hours faster than New York's. Be glad you're in America, for this is a killing heat. On the way, we stopped at Basra, Iraq, where at 3 in the morning we dripped with sweat while the heat came at us as If from ovens. We got a second wind, and hopped 1100 miles more to Karachi, Pakistan. “There's a golf course here,” an American told us. “But*there’s not a blade of grass on it. “SOMETIMES a bird flies up and picks the golf ball up and takes it away.” “You get a bird instead of a birdie” TI suggested. You see the heat had got me. We settled down here in our Pan-Am Connie at Nehru's citv—the hottest city we've met. In our time, we've battled the heat of political conventions in Philadelphia and Chicago, but this is now the hottest city of our acquaintance. For it gets to be 110 to 120 hereabouts, and you gasp for the monsoon that’s somehow late. But Justice Douglas, in an all-white suit, and full of information about his successful trip to the Himalayan. Mountains, didn’t seem to mind.

“PDO YOU KNOW what a yak is?” manded when we met at a party. “It's what Milton Berle tries to get when he tells a joke,” 1 said. “I mean the animal,” he said. “It's the funny animal in the zoos and in the primer under Y,” I decided. “I'm surprised at you,” he said. “A yak cannot live in a zoo and if a mosquito bites it on the nose, it dies.” On his trip, Justice Douglas was thrown by a yak. “Were vou hurt?” “No. But I was mighty irritated.”

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THE JUSTICE, who has taken fantastic movie films and got jungle songs on a tape recorder, will be going home very soon. He is 20 pounds lighter.“ He said he was glad to be heading back before long toward Yakima, Wash, his home town, which he said, he . is press-agencing for by getting his leg broken, etc. “What's Yakima near?” I asked. “That's not the way we ask that question!” he chided. “We always say, ‘What's near it?'"

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THE MIDNIGHT EARL IN N. Y.—-Will Defense Mobilizer Charles Wilson be moved out of

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK. Sept. 6—While I advocate no midgets as a steady adjunct of the national sport, I do believe that a certain number of innovations must be impressed on baseball to update it in terms of its momentary presentation to the public. I think, just for a start, that the teams must be renamed in favor of their

television sponsors. It seems silly to call a club the Giants when their name obviously

should be the Chesterfields, and 1 cannot see the need of maintaining the. Yankee myth when the direct thing is to call them after the beer that permits them to dwell amongst the arts, Some terminology of the sport, too, must be officially } changed, since home runs, dou- a ble plays ‘and other striking departures from the norm are always heralded in terms Qf how many cigarets each feat is worth. When a belt into the seats is first-named a Ballantine blast when all the corny sportswriters used to call it a round-tripper or even a circuit clout, we might as well begin anew and redecorate the slang by which the game is identified.

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THERE 1S no need to keep on calling the bases bases, or sacks, or hassocks when you might as easily describe them as cartons, and -a fanciful writer may say that Joe Burp had just been tagged for two bottles. Nicotine and malt can as easily become the secret of success that the Castoria kiddies used to cry for. or the snappy, popsy, wonderful crispy cruncholas that build brawn and brain, . But there is a deeper need in baseball today than mere rearrangement of nomenclature. What the game really needs is a special. coach—a dramatic coach. The quality of the acting, performed expressly for the TV cameras, is atro-

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Brooklyn ruckys of the other eve, played villain with the heavy-footedness of

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I vegetables were nt’ to be handled, I'd be out of business in two days.” He meant every word. Another stand owner jokingly said it makes women mad when they don’t run into fruit that is good squeezing. When they find one soft pear or deteriorating orange in a pile, it's easier to make a sale. The find makes them feel cagey, superior. He hit the orange on the navel, . I watched an’expérienced and hardened shopper go through a display of purple plums. Everytime her hands made contact with one that felt suspiciously close ‘to substandard in her estimation, she looked up from her work, glared at the man

‘ behind the counter and turned the corners of

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CANTALOUPES TAKE an awful beating. The

proper way, I'm told, to test a cantaloupe, is to

ask the market man ff they're ripe, sweet and have flavor. The wrong way is to poke your thumb through the stem. : It could be that some housewives imagine the cantaloupe to be their husband's head. They try to crush it, seratch it and it isn't a rare sight to see them shake it. Grapes must be tasted. Why, I don't know. Oranges and grapefruit, potatoes and bananas aren't sampled. Grapes, yes. : When it comes to grapes, that's where I'd be inclined to put up a sign. One woman sampled about a pound before the clerk came over and then decided she didn’t want any. Too sour.. Now, that's no way to do business. For the past eight years I have been living a bachelor’s life. And, I might add, doing quite well. About this time of the year I begin to buy produce. Love apples, pears, peaches, grapes and plums. Sliced peaches with yogurt are excellent. Ever have them that way? o oe oe WELL, I'M beginning to lose my appetite after this squeezing study. True, you should wash

all fruit. Some people peel fruit such as apples and peaches. Many even peel oranges and bananas. Diet experts say the peeling is the best

part of the fruit. But when you eat an apple or a pear on the hoof, on the street, as I do, your shirt front is the only alternative for cleaning. Plums are definitely out of my diet. I guess it is better not to think too much. . I suggested to a clerk that he provide Kleenex to customers who have a penchant for squeezing. everything, He said that wouldn't work. “Women have to get their hands on a pear. They don’t like to feel through anything. Bésides, I'd have to raise the price on my stuff if 1 used Kleenex and you know what that would do.” What is the solution? Probably the best thing to do is go right in with the rest of them and do my share of pinching. Could get married. There's always that. Does anyone have any other ideas?

Having a Hot Time In Old New Delhi

his office to appease labor? D. C. Grapevine has him moving into Secretary of Commerce job with Charles Sawyer resigning . . . State Senator Halpern weighing offers from local Republican headquarters. They want to nominate him for office of Borough President of Queens . ., . Ray Robinson's political ambitions will be decided by the outcome of his return match with Turpin. If Sugar wins, he’ll probably seek leadership in Harlem. ! Bosomy Jeane Williams is missing out on a Dagmar-type

to Chicago with “Gentlefnen Prefer Blondes” . .. Tony Galento’'s consfdering a comeback . . . Lionel Hampton has sunk $250,000 into his magazine, “Jet,” due for newsstands in November . . . The movie industry will poiur a million bucks into its “Movietime, U. 8S. A.” campaign to hike movie attendance. oe oo o> B'WAY BULLETINS: Oleo heir Johnny Jelke back in N.Y, after two weeks with the Air National Guard ... Milton Douglas, “Cavalcade of Stars”

producer, building a new TV show for comic Larry Storch Ee . . The Diamond Horseshoe Barbara has definitely not been sold . . . Cummings Mary Martin and Josh Logan

both backing “Paint Your Wagon” . .. Nat King Cole has written two new tunes for his Carnegie Hall concert . . . Barbara Cummings will front

the orchestra at the Aldecress Country Club Saturday. de oa oe

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TODAY'S WORST PUN: Dennis James predicts that the new tax on beer will leave thousands foamless. - a & WISH I'D SAID THAT: “You know the guy's with his wife when he looks at the prices on the menu.”'—ABC's singer Dick Brown. EARL'S PEARLS: Robert Q. Lewis claims.to be working on a new kind of TV set—it would show people at ball games what's going on at bars. 3

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TAFFY TUTTLE said at Majors .Cabin she was invited to a dull cocktail party that turned out to be a fete worse than death . . . That's Earl, brother.

What Baseball Needs Is Dramatic Coaching

There was great force and determination, but little quality and no subtlety whatsoever. And Al's pronunciation of the word strike, obviously aided by a throat mike, could be called just a touch on the overdone side. It really does not need three minutes for delivery, even though you know you're on stage and the world awaits your effort. oe oe oo THE MAN who coaches at third base used to be more or less anonymous, unless he also happened to be the manager, but now he is a star. The fancy footwork exhibited by the third-base coaches, as they retrieve foul balls, and the airy grace of their throw back to the infield resembles an effort of Tessie, the fat girl, in a high school production of Peter Pan. So camera-conscious have the athletes hecome {hat even a pitcher's disconsolate stroll to the showers, after his brains have been knocked out, is a classic exit of uncut ham. I saw one guy even develop a limp, the other day, in order to lend that added touch of artistry to his performance. Arguments. between umpire and player are now conducted almost entirely in profile, as each ham fights to dominate the camera. And I swear fresh expressions have been perfected that would shock Stanislavsky. Most of the mugging that goes on in Harlem and the Bronx and Brooklyn is not performed in dark alleys. It is performed in the stadia of this great city, for the special benefit of the TV watcher. : Sid 0b I SUGGEST very strongly that a course in acting be as necessary as the usual steps in teaching a player to run and hit and throw. A special coach, the dramatic one, must be -employed to teach the lads the value of the pearshaped oral delivery, and might also be constrained to teach pitchers to bunt. : Certainly, I should say that sometime during the player's apprenticeship in the bushes, he should take one season off for a stint of summer stock, fa . an .Actually, the thing thats>baseball needs most _today is not a czar. It is-a dramatic critic, and recommend Dorothy Parker. She knows all the

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CHAPTER FOUR Why Teaching Has Changed By WILBUR A. YAUCH How often have you® heard the comment: “I wish schools would stop fooling around and get down to business?” Or: “Why don’t the schools get back to the fundamentals?” Or, more often: “They don't teach the way they used to. Our children don't know as much as we did.” These and many other comments and questions of parents show that we teachers have failed in one of our responsibilities. We haven't kept the public well informed about what is going on in our schools. We haven't shown parents why changes in _school are both needed and demanded by the

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OUR EARLY ATTEMPTS to make these changes; along about 1925, weren't successful. Our ideas were not too well formed. We put these ideas into practice too quickly, and made some bad mistakes. : The general public watched our efforts, first with tolerant acceptance, then with growing alarm at what they thought were the outcomes. They said that children were encouraged to be brats. They studied only

How Good Is Your School?—

EDITOR'S NOTE: Dr. Wilbur A. Yauch of Ohio University is an experienced educator who served for many years as a school principal in Cleveland and New York City. In addition, he is a father himself. : Here, Dr. Yauch invites American parents to take time off in early autumn for a fresh look -at -our school system, at the start of the’ new term.. This is the fourth of a series of six articles from the book, “HOW GOOD IS YOUR SCHOOL?”

poor teachers running from one idea to another. They would return to their colleges for summer work, study

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how to carry on these new methods,

then rush back to the room to try them out. ‘a ”n 5 THE STORY is told of one such teacher who took a course in the summer on newer methods of teaching reading. The professor impressed on her

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mind that ‘‘children should not:

be taught to read until are ready.”

What the professor undoubtedly had in mind was that there are certain signposts in the child's development that show when it will be most

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what they wanted to; the distzy profitable for the child to be

cipline was awful. Teachers had lost control of the children.

SOME OF THIS was true. Many teachers tried loyally and

‘ conscientiously to make a com-

plete change in the way they a It was the modern “fad” in education,” and they

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taught. But only the ‘readiness” part stuck in the teacher's mind. ‘The following fall a visitor happened to drop into her room. - Bedlam .reigned. The children were chasing one another "all over the room. .No one seemed to be doing anything resembling learning. .

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UUUUP—Round-and-round the giant ferris wheels whirl, rolling stomachs, jangling nerves and lending” the riders a bird's eye view of the panoramic pageant. .

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LOOKING UP brightly from her knitting, the teacher smiled indulgently and said: “Our professor told us not to teach children to read until they are ready. These children aren't ready.” Imperfect grasp of what had bean proposed was responsible for this teacher's bad practice.

It explains much of the poor procedures used in many schools during the period from 19251935. It is the cause of much of the public mistrust of modern methods of teaching. However, the world living in is different from the one you and I were raised in In the first place, it is a much bigger world. Everybody today has so much more that he can know about.

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With this series, HOW GOOD 18 YOUR SCHOOL? 100 items are listed for you to check on your visit.

Here are 11 more:

THE TEACHER

1—The teacher has tour vears of college training in preparation for her teaching. 2-—-She is attractively dressed and pleasant looking. (She doesn’t need to be " pretty.) 3—S8he tells you about the

program in a way you can understand. 4—-8She shows that she understands and likes children. 4 5—8he invites you to stay and watch the program. _ 6—The children treat her ~ with respect and affection. 7—8he is confident and

poised before the children.

8 Her voice is soft and

pleasant. . 9--She deals with the chilren in such a way that they learn to control their own behavior.

10—Children behave well because the teacher makes them figure out the reasons. 11-—-8he makes you so’interested in the program you would like to stay and learn this way yourself. " Don't try to use this list as a ratihg scale. You . should ‘not expect to find . your school 100- per cent perfect, You do have the right to ‘éxpect it to be good. You owe it to your child to gee that it is. : :

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Teachers Fail In Education Of Parents

When out to organize man's knowledge twenty-five hundred years ago, it was a possible job,

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provided a person were smart enough. Today, no man, however smart, can hope to know everything. It is humanly impossible On the other hand, it is a

much smaller world. Through the inventions of radio and television we can bring every corner of the earth into our living room. And these inventions have both occurred in the past 25 years In many other ways the world has changed. particularly here in America. Children born into this world have a much more difficult time growing up. Thev have not only their own internal needs, but must fit inte the culture in such a way that we call them successful, » n ” IN THE PAST we thought «of. this as merely “making the children mind.” Today, we

know hetter, If the child has any “spunk” at all he will insist on his own ideas being considered. If children are to be the best they know how to be, we must take their wishes, purposes,

drives, and motives count. In fair return, they must be made to realize that there are somé things they must

learn to do, whether they like,

it or not.

The task of helping the child fit into the plan of society. and

at the same time proyiding free-

dom and ecouragement fo him to grow agcording to his own ideas, is one

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