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Johnson began to show his tremendous capacity for work in his early school years. Because he finished his lessons ahead of everyone else and then got into trouble, the teacher loaded him with chores-washing the blackboard, bringing in wood and water. After he finished high school with high marks at 15, he seemed to lose interest in education. He took a wild trip to California with five other rangy young Texans, worked as a hasher and an elevator operator there, then hitchhiked home to take a tractor-driving job. All this distressed his mother. Lyndon Johnson still remembers...
Bread & Butter Note. In New London, Conn., a burglar broke into Bulkeley Junior High School, cooked himself a meal in the home economics room, took $110 from the principal's office, chalked a note on the blackboard: "I'm sorry...
...sensational, that should be enough to guarantee the revue some sort of immortality. A dusky beauty, Miss Kitt is as feline as her name, sometimes playful, often with her claws showing. Her voice is equally unpredictable--a mellow huskiness which rises to a wail like fingernails on a blackboard. When she stalks on stage, it is not to win the favor of her audience. Instead, she toys languorously with her show-stopping song "Monotonous" and the result is electrifying...
Voting for student government office and for senior class marshals will continue through today and tomorrow. Tabulations of the election results will be marked as they come in on a blackboard at Briggs Hall...
...loving voters at home too unhappy. In the drive to bring down meat consumption, Health Minister Carrillo is trying to scare his countrymen into becoming vegetarians. At a busy corner in downtown Buenos Aires, he has put up a "Health Cooking" stand featuring free, meatless recipes, and a huge blackboard warning of disorders, from gallstones to high blood pressure, which he insists are caused by excessive meat-eating...