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...Louis public-school system, first as teacher and athletic coach, later as principal. To his white colleagues, it was no surprise. "Sam Shepard is willing to work three times harder than anyone else," one of them says. "He stays with a problem like a dog on a bone, until he gets the job done." By 1952 Sam Shepard, a district director of education, headed 22 of the city's 130 still segregated grade schools. His charges: 13,000 students (only 1,000 of them whites) who live in the squalid middle of the city's sleaziest neighborhoods...
After 21 hours, a search plane sighted them, dropped a note to a boat, which picked them up. Mother Lillian Rich was given up for dead. But next day a helicopter spotted her, cut and bone weary, back near the confluence, picked her up by landing in a nearby clearing. Search parties later retrieved the hull of the Rich boat, its motor, top and windshield gone. Gone, too, was Frank Rich. His son, Del, could not forgive himself. "It was my fault, my fault," he mumbled over and over, staring out at the river...
Died. Sir David William Bone, 84, British master mariner who went to sea at 15, commanded troopships under fire in two wars (last to leave the torpedoed transport Cameronia in World War I, he grabbed the stay of a destroyer alongside as his ship sank), wrote several books about the sea (The Brassbounder, The Queerfella); in Farnham, England...
...grey-veined marble flanks as bleached as a great prehistoric bone, its entrance guarded by pretentious bronze doors, the new 500-room, $25 million Senate Office Building sprawled resplendently last week on Capitol Hill-dubbed "The Great White Goof...
...field are stronger than ever because they have weathered a vigorous shakeout. A few years ago there were 100 manufacturers. Scores dropped out, including Servel, Vornado, International Harvester. Each victim left behind a heavy inventory, which went at fire-sale prices. Now inventories are down to the bone, and the price wars are past...