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Last week she reconsidered, insisted that her resignation "is illegal because it was under duress." But no one around town really thinks that Schoolmistress Baskin will ever teach in Lakeland again. "What is my crime?" she once demanded of a school-board member. "Not a thing," said that worthy, "except you put a white boy on a nigger bus, and a lot of folks don't like...
...cattle drive from Pendleton through Boise to Fort Benton, Montana. In Montana, he turns his winnings in a horse race (Callie, his prostitute mistress loaning the initial capital) into a profitable ranch. The politically ambitious Lat must, however, renounce his shady past and marries a Hoosier schoolmistress. His past quickly overtakes him, and he is simultaneously faced with embarrassing problems in which only compromise, rather than solution, is possible...
...good news for the lollipop trade: Madeline is back, with her eleven straight-living little boarding-school friends and the noble Schoolmistress Clavel, in a rousing sequel. In Madeline's Rescue, Bemelmans takes up where he left off when he noted earlier of Madeline: "And nobody knew so well / How to frighten Miss Clavel." One of the frightening things Madeline liked to do was walking on bridge railings. This time she falls into the Seine, and "Poor Madeline would now be dead / But for a dog / That kept its head...
...wiles over schoolmates and grandmother and spreads her poison-The Children's Hour has the lure of mounting melodrama. It is with the last act that something at once harsher and more humane begins to blow through the story, and with the very last scene-when the surviving schoolmistress faces an enlightened, remorseful old lady-that the play takes on, emotionally and morally, a sense of the tragic...
...biggest prize of all was Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, the black-bearded Kikuyu who runs the Kenya African Union (K.A.U.). A London-trained anthropologist still legally married to a blonde Sussex schoolmistress, Kenyatta (baptized Johnstone Kamau) spent the '30s in Moscow as a student guest of the Kremlin, returned to Kenya to spread the Red gospel. K.A.U. (membership: 100,000) ostensibly seeks home rule for Kenya, but is more likely a screen for Communist and anti-Christian propaganda among Kenya's 5,000,000 blacks. In the hymnbooks used in 300 bush schools supervised by K.A.U., Jomo Kenyatta...