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ON YOUR HANDS? This column will deal specifically with one or two "time fillers" in each issue, but we want to cover the kind of thing you are most interested in. We hope, therefore, that you will send in requests for information and that you will also send facts about your own interesting hobbies and occupations, be they intellectual, practical or just plain fun. THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS in Manhattan, Long Island, New Jersey, Westchester and Connec- ticut have Adult Education courses, (for the small sum of 1.00 in most cases) in prac- tically everything, from Political Science to Public Speaking. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY and N.Y.U. have extension courses (catalogues on request) in such diverse and ambition-pro- voking things as Geology, Music Appreciation, Short Story Writing, and many etcs. THE LIGHTHOUSE, 111 East 59th Street and the AMERICAN RED CROSS, 315 Lexington Avenue, give courses in reading and typing Braille and you will find an amazingly varied list of other ways you can help your country by call- ing your local RED CROSS or CIVILIAN DEFENSE VOLUNTEER OFFICE (War Council). The NEW YORK HOSPITAL FUND, 370 Lexington Avenue, wants men and women for messengers, ele- vator operators, ward, clinic and dietary aides. THE WAR MANPOWER COMMISSION, 11 West 42nd Street, wants men and women volunteers to join the U. S. CROP CORPS for summer and fall harvesting and work in canneries. Appli- cations should be made now at the U. S. EM- PLOYMENT SERVICE, 124 East 28th Street. This would seem an ideal way to rebuild one's health and help Uncle Sam at no expense. There is a fascinating place in the Village called THE CLAY CLUB, 4 West 8th Street, where long suppressed artistic ambitions can materialize into Greek vases or undraped nudes by playing around with hunks of wet clay. THE HAYDEN PLANETARIUM, Central Park West and 81st Street, gives courses in Celes- tial Navigation and Star Identification, Tues- day and Thursday evenings from 6:30 to 8:30. The cost is $5.00 for ten lessons. The METRO- POLITAN MUSEUM OF ART offers concerts in the Morgan Wing each Sunday at 3:45 P.M. and in the Cloisters, Fort Tryon Park, (Fifth Ave- nue Bus No. 4 marked Cloisters takes you to the door) religious and secular music of the middle ages can be heard Sundays and Tues- days at 3:30 P.M. A booklet of the museum's lectures and special exhibitions will be sent on request. |
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. definite statement that you won't take a drink. Make a hospital call. When you feel low, get to the next meeting, anywhere in the area; or go to one of the A.A. luncheons. Never let yourself get hungry. For that five o'clock time try a light snack, a frosted chocolate. See our Time on Your Hands Column . . . and send us your own Ounces of Prevention. |
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